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MIT Wirelessly Powers a Lightbulb
kcurtis writes "According to the Boston Globe, MIT Researchers have powered a light bulb remotely. The successful experiment lit a 60-watt light bulb from a power source two meters away, with no physical connection between the power source and the light bulb. Details about WiTricity, or wireless electricity, are scheduled to be reported today in Science Express, the advance online publication of the journal Science, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said. 'The team from MIT is not the first group to suggest wireless energy transfer. Nineteenth-century physicist and engineer Nikola Tesla experimented with long-range wireless energy transfer, but his most ambitious attempt - the 29m high aerial known as Wardenclyffe Tower, in New York - failed when he ran out of money. Others have worked on highly directional mechanisms of energy transfer such as lasers. However, unlike the MIT work, these require an uninterrupted line of sight, and are therefore not good for powering objects around the home.'"
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
Apparently the power supply failed.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
I want a wireless lightbulb hanging above my head, for when I have good ideas.
No longer having to search for an ethernet cable or phone jack for my modem was great! In a few years, I won't have to battle against the hippie-chick mac users in the coffee shop for one of the tables next to one of the three electrical outlets in the joint! The only problem is, I wouldn't call my computer a, "lap top," anymore, as I wouldn't want to put any device that is recharged wirelessly anywhere near my, ... um,... "equipment."
Chiefly by the differentiating degree of buzzword compliance.
Lets tag this article under: cancer
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I'm tired of mistakes like this:
The successful experiment to lit a 60-watt light bulb
It should be "to lite a 60-watt light bult." Duh?
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
I don't know about cancer, but I'll wager standing in the way of a very high power transmitter would probably negate the need for condoms, or possibly skin.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Or a robot trying to help an injured soldier.
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Laser conduits for power??? Finally!
About ten years ago, my dad came home from work and told me about a practical joke someone had played at work.
Some engineers had called the technician, complaining that the light in their office wouldn't turn off. The technician came, and no, it didn't turn the bulb off. He attached the multimeter to the switch... the power was being turned on and off by the switch. He attached it to the bulb itself... power was being cut. So he removed the bulb: it stayed on even when unplugged.
The engineers had pointed an active magnetron at the bulb.
Until you show me one person who has made both types of comments you mention, your point is worthless.
OK, I'll fess up, it was me! I made both comments ... but then again I made the parent comment as well %).
Just because Tesla was a genius doesn't mean he wasn't also insane. He invented a great many useful and wonderful things that are very important to the infrastructure of modern society, and was at times denied credit by jealous and antagonistic rivals, but he had many eccentricities, particularly in his later life, that point to him not having been entirely well in the head. He refused to eat where others could see him, freaked out about other people's hair touching him, and generally seems to have had serious problems maintaining normal interpersonal relationships with other people.
There is so much negativity in the air tonight!
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
How will this technology affect my tinfoil hat? Do I need to make tinfoil underwear too? Or would that just be bad for the boys?
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Yup, this technology has been around for at least a year in mass production. You can buy the extension cords at Thinkgeek.com.
...and that's the way the cookie crumbles.