A student at Canada’s Carleton University has discovered a new way to drastically improve battery life on mobile phones by changing the way the antenna is connected to the device. The method eliminates all the wires used to connect the electronic circuit board of the phone with the antenna. Rather than wires, the antenna communicates with the circuit board via a small RF transmitter embedded in the circuit. The method reduces power draw on the battery by 12 times, and will be less-costly to produce when compared to traditionally wired configurations. The inventor, Atif Shamim, an electronics PhD student at Carleton University, has filed for patents on the technology.