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What is the Future of Wireless Power?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-is-gonna-burn-my-crotch-isn't-it dept.

mfbatzap writes "According to Firdooze, we have seen various devices that can free ourselves from wires at CES 2008. The manufactures, Wildcharge, Powercast and Fulton Innovation, came out with two different methods of transmitting power from source to the devices. Wildcharge and Fulton banked on magnetic coupling while Powercast decided to go with RF (Radio Frequency). So which technology will eventually prevail to be the future of wireless power? Or will the technological setbacks from transferring power wirelessly make it unrealistic to accomplish a wire-free world?"

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  1. I for one hail our new glowing overlords by debatem1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have to wonder whether this announcement and the glowing pigs announcement are just coincidental...

  2. Wireless Everything by ShawnCplus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well my laptop has wireless internet and a wireless mouse, why not wireless power? I'd gladly accept a benign tumor or two if I could get more than 3 hours out of my battery.

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    1. Re:Wireless Everything by ByOhTek · · Score: 4, Funny

      well, I experimented with this. While the tumors were benign to me, after the third or fourth time I woke up to find one gnawing on the limb of a small child it apparantly captured/ate/killed, I decided it was time to have it removed. Apparantly three doctors were lost during the procedure.

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  3. When will people learn? by Kuukai · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wireless power was simply never meant to be. Nikola Tesla tried it, and look what happened to him. He's DEAD!
     
    I wouldn't touch wireless power with a ten foot, umm... wire.

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  4. Re:I say neither, you say neither by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the reasons you state, I'd put the people demanding wireless power among the people demanding pony-sized unicorns, at least for the forseeable future. I think pony-sized unicorns is more likely given how genetic engineering is going, but then the people that say they want them are going to say they won't pay more than $1500 for those.