Recharging your smartphone can become a major errand when the battery is not able to keep up with your demands. With every generation of smartphones that has come into the market the batteries have been improved in terms of endurance, and time to charge has been reduced. However there are still enough people dissatisfied with the performance of their smartphone batteries and wish that they would last longer.

The scientists at the Binghamton University, State University of New York, have taken up the challenge to meet your future power storage requirements in a rather unique way. They, currently, have come up with a textile-based, bacteria-powered bio-battery, which could in the future be a part of the clothes that you wear. Assistant Professor Seokheun Choi, who lead the team at the Electrical and Computer Science Department, had previously made paper-based microbial fuel cells.

“If we consider that humans possess more bacterial cells than human cells in their bodies, the direct use of bacterial cells as a power resource interdependently with the human body is conceivable for wearable electronics,” said Choi. The fabric has been tested for it’s ability to continue functioning even when stretched and twisted repeatedly. As per Choi, textile-based bio-batteries will be potentially integrated into wearable electronics in a future science project.