Pocket-Brain Notes

The next few articles will give a bird’s‑eye view of what’s happening in Europe, China, and the USA in the battery technology arena.   The goal is to connect the dots and show that the pace of battery innovation is real and accelerating.  It’s worth remembering that before breakthroughs become mainstream or appear in keynotes, they often result from years of hard work by many people.  My argument is that the gap (discovery, prototyping, and large‑scale adoption) is shrinking faster than ever. Which is why it’s important to at least think: what next? With that, let’s discuss BIG‑MAP, like Big Mac, yet stands for.... the Battery Interface Genome–Materials Acceleration Platform (BIG‑MAP) a mouth fall I know! This project, now redirected and extended, re‑imagined battery R&D by integrating artificial intelligence to radically accelerate materials discovery. The project united 34 partners from 15 countries, spanning academia, industry, and research labs, and became a found...

Battery innovation has hit an inflection point.   Now, after a decade of incremental gains, six fundamentally different technologies are moving from labs into production, each unlocking a different constraint that has defined consumer electronics design since the smartphone era began.   The shift is happening faster than expected, and it's not just about bigger batteries in the same phones. These innovations are changing what devices can be . Near term Unlocks:   1. Silicon Anodes Graphite has been the bottleneck for a decade. It stores one lithium atom per carbon, and we've optimised this ratio as much as possible. Silicon stores ten times more, but it swells to three times its original size when charged - destroying the battery from the inside. The solution arrived in nano-shells: wrapping silicon particles so they can expand without fracturing, and it’s already in devices. Honor Magic V5 and Realme GT7 Pro are shipping with silicon anodes today, delivering 15–25% more ...

Hello and welcome, I'm Sami. I’m going to take you on a journey through consumer tech that doesn't exist yet - well not fully - but probably should and very well might. I'm not a tech industry insider, and that's precisely what qualifies me to write about new consumer products.   I haven’t studied this formally, which means I come to it without the inherited assumptions of the industry. What I have done is researched deeply supply chains, bill of materials, battery technology, OS and hardware, in combination of re-reading thinkers, acknowledged by their peers, and analysts to connect trends. This beginner's mind approach, unencumbered by preconceived notions, is exactly how breakthrough innovations emerge: by asking why not ? instead of defaulting to that won't work . What I write about This blog is a collection of story-driven essays exploring a future consumer product stack - the kind enabled by better batteries, localised AI, and technologies that are tantal...

I think about this often... We should be thinking about this, aiming to build for it, or assist those who can. Welcome...to a rabbit hole about one possible future, a future involving human interaction & machine.