LARRY BRUDZYNSKI Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 I can think of quite a few of us here that would be interested in one of these..... http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/22/wireless.power.ap/index.html?eref=ib_technology Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregH Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 I read about this in Scientific American a while back. It's an interesting technology. I'll be very curious to see what the commercial prospects will be... A company I interviewed for a while back had a pretty cool business plan. They are a spinoff of a defense contractor, and their job was to purchase the research from several local facilities and massage them into viable commercial products. They specialized in acoustics adn resonance - right up the same alley as this "witricity" stuff.. There was a product I saw a while back based on pacemaker technology... It was basically a tabeltop with some electronics built into it.. You place your laptop, cellphone, PDA and other whatnot on it, and the batteries are recharged and the devices synced with each other... It used some induction coils for power, and bluetooth transcievers for communication. Your devices had to be appropriately equipped with induction coils for charging, but nost devices are already bluetooth compatible.. Interesting stuff.. I do wonder - somtimes - what all the increase in electromagnetic radiation exposure will do to us.... Oh, and anyone interested can read articles from SciAm - http://www.sciam.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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