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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 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.