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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. 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". :)

  3. 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.