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Atif Shamim, a Pakistani Engineering student studying at Carleton University Canada, has pulled off a trick that the multi-billion dollar giants like Apple and RIM couldnt do – i.e extend the battery life of devices like iPhone and BlackBerries. Shamim, an electronics Phd student at Carleton, has built a prototype that extends the battery life of devices by removing wires that connects the electronic circuitry with the antenna. These wires are now replaced with wireless connections resulting in more than 12 times decrease in the power consumption of the devices.

“This has not been tried before — that the circuits are connected to the antenna wirelessly. They’ve been connected through wires and a bunch of other components. That’s where the power gets lost,” Mr. Shamim said.

The invention has already won accolades, as paper about the invention was named the best paper at the European Wireless Technology Conference. Shamim has also filed patent applications in the U.S. and in Canada, but it might be years till we see this technology in industrial use.

Picture above shows Shamim (right) and fellow researcher Muhammad Arsalan (center) receiving Industrial Collaboration Award from Iain Scott (left), Strategic Microelectronics Council of ITAC.