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Stories · 4

  1. Wireless Power Companies Merge, But No Real-Life Devices Yet

    Hardware · Power · · posted by timothy · from the wait-'til-you-can't-avoid-the-power-zones dept. · 48 comments
    A hopeful anonymous reader writes "It looks like Splashpower (Or what is left of it anyway) was purchased by the company behind eCoupled. Hopefully this means that interoperable wireless power is one step closer to reality as two of the companies trying to comercialize the technology are now the same." (US readers, read "administration" as "bankruptcy.")

  2. Wireless Power Recharging Nears Fruition

    Tech · Technology · · posted by timothy · from the lead-codpiece-is-all-that-prevents-it-now dept. · 310 comments
    AlexanderT writes "Mobileread.com is reporting that wireless power recharging of mobile devices may become commercially available by the end of this year. Various recently filed patents by Cambridge UK-based Splashpower Ltd. indicate how close the company is in realizing this technology."

  3. Contactless Electrical Current Transfer?

    Ask · Science · · posted by Cliff · from the keep-your-hands-and-feet-away dept. · 73 comments
    ferralis (Not an EE) asks: "Recently I've come up with a design for a very fun toy (to be unveiled later if I'm successful). What's missing is a means to send electrical power over a distance of five to ten centimeters (2-4 inches). I've done some research (mostly online) and have found extremely limited information. Even my beloved Google has forsaken me, and even my pleadings to eldritch information deities such as AltaVista have gone unrewarded. Can anyone help?" "The way I see it, to do this a person needs merely set up a high-frequency electrical field using a larger coil (primary) and a similar but smaller coil (secondary) can be placed within it, creating an air-core transformer. Unfortunately I can't find the math or even anecdotes about what happens when the secondary is off-center, or there is more than one secondary introduced... and I am not looking to build a Tesla coil here. I can imagine that many toys could be built using such a system, and one would think the knowledge would be well known and readily available, but apparently it is not. For this application, efficiency is -not- an issue."

  4. Wireless Charging your Handhelds?

    Hardware · Handheld · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the now-thats-just-crazy dept. · 235 comments
    Flibble writes "The BBC has a story about a uk startup offering a mat for charging all your portable devices via magnetic inductive power transfer. Is this the answer to cutting the mountain of chargers I have to carry all the time?" God wouldn't that be a dream come true?