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Splashpower Boasts Wireless Power

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the need-one-big-enough-to-sleep-on dept.

Sullivan writes "Maccentral is running a story on a startup called Splashpower that hopes to be able to wirelessly recharge all of our handheld devices. They have a working prototype that already recharges an iPod Mini and a cell phone. Now we can look forward to yet another way to get brain cancer."

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  1. Did they get ahold of Tesla's research? by cyberworm · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is probably how Tesla would have charged his iPod.

    1. Re:Did they get ahold of Tesla's research? by hazee · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, except Tesla would have used a couple of million volts, giving rise to massive bloody great bursts of lightning that have a nasty habbit of electrocuting passing cattle, and whose cracks of thunder *really* annoy the villagers ten miles down the valley...

  2. fashion news... by rd4tech · · Score: 2, Funny

    the tinfoil hat

  3. Re:afroman's already done it by sirmalloc · · Score: 2, Funny

    best....website.....ever.

  4. Re:Oooh, saves me a whole 2 seconds! by cloudmaster · · Score: 4, Funny

    You forgot "clean all of the lint and crud out of the charging port" and "wiggle phone around so the contacts make good contact rather than just barely missing" in your description of the old method. You also may have forgotton "make sure that cord is at such an angle so as to facilitate minimal breakage after grabbbing and walking away without remembering to unplug it in the morning". :)

  5. Re:I love my new ... by Noxx · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think Eddie Murphy is still looking into it...

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    Study everything, you'll find something you can use - Jason Bourne
  6. One step closer... by hal2814 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now we're one step closer to the Broadcast Energy Transmitter (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093066/). Better watch out or Cobra-La will use it to deploy spores from space.

  7. Re:Oooh, saves me a whole 2 seconds! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You're obviously not as lazy as I am!

  8. Re:Lawsuits are a comin' by joelsanda · · Score: 3, Funny

    The "I'm getting cancer and my kids have ADD because of the powerlines in my house" crowd and their lawyers are going to have a field day with this!

    Yeah ... especially when the attorneys (whose suits will still cost more than their laptops and cell phones) are typing away on their laptops using WiFi and mobile phones with Bluetooth!

    Case ... dismissed!

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    The Luddites were ahead of their time.
  9. Re:Lawsuits are a comin' by Peldor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obviously the field wasn't strong enough to make their lightbulbs glow.

  10. Re:Oooh, saves me a whole 2 seconds! by CaseyB · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're that guy from the TV commercials, aren't you? You know, the guy for whom straining spaghetti or wiping off a table or opening a jar are so incredibly difficult and frustrating that you have to swipe all your existing products off a tabletop with both hands and buy some special device to do it for you.

  11. Nothing New by Anonimus+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Reminds me of something else I've seen before... http://www.afrotechmods.com/cheap/arnoldpad/arnold pad.htm

  12. Re:Oooh, saves me a whole 2 seconds! by Steven+W00ston · · Score: 1, Funny

    You don't get it. Wires are not cute enough for Mac users. At least, not until you can get a brushed aluminum firewire cable.

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    Steven Wooston, Lead Programmer, J-J-J-Julius Games
    Author of a CONSIDERABLE number of best-selling games