Now, what if the phone could fix itself?

At the University of Illinois, scientists are creating self-healing electronic circuits. The research team developed a system of capsules filled with liquid metal. These are placed along the circuit board and when broken the liquid metal is released restoring connectivity to complete the circuit again.

The research team ran test on their system and amazingly the system can repair circuits in a fraction of a second! Greater parts of circuits are returning nearly to 100% capacity. That means the device would be fixed without the owner even having acknowledgment that there was ever a problem. The system can repair circuits even when technicians can't find where the problem occurs.

With cell phones repairing themselves it would decrease the percentage of cell phones ending up as electronic waste. How exciting!