If you’re ever dropped your phone you’ll understand just how costly it can be to have it repaired, but the smartphones of the future may be able to repair themselves.

There’s a lot of work being done in the field of self-repairing materials and Australian researchers recently demonstrated a way to help 3D-printed plastic heal itself at room temperature using only lights.

Now self healing electronics may sound like something out of a Terminator movie they are becoming a reality as scientists recently developed eco-friendly nanocrystal semiconductors capable of self-healing.   This technology was aimed at use in solar panels but could be used widely in  electronics.