Physicists Promise Wireless Power

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @01:33AM from the having-a-hard-time-buying-it dept.

StrongGlad writes "The tangle of cables and plugs needed to recharge today's electronic gadgets could soon be a thing of the past. Researchers at MIT have outlined a relatively simple system that could deliver power wirelessly to devices such as laptop computers or MP3 players. In a nutshell, their solution entails installing special 'non-radiative' antennae with identical resonant frequencies on both the power transmitter and the receiving device. Any energy not diverted into a gadget or appliance is simply reabsorbed. The system currently under development is designed to operate at distances of 3 to 5 meters, but the researchers claim that it could be adapted to factory-scale applications, or miniaturized for use in the 'microscopic world.'"

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Refined old tech? by fostware · 2006-11-15 01:41 · Score: 0, Redundant

Are they refining mini Telsa coils?

Bout fricken' time ^_^

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1. Re:Refined old tech? by fostware · 2006-11-15 05:17 · Score: 0, Redundant
  
  When marking posts redundant, it's best to check the fricken posting time compared to others...
  
  Bah!
  
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