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Wireless Power Companies Merge, But No Real-Life Devices Yet

Posted by timothy on from the wait-'til-you-can't-avoid-the-power-zones dept.

A hopeful anonymous reader writes "It looks like Splashpower (Or what is left of it anyway) was purchased by the company behind eCoupled. Hopefully this means that interoperable wireless power is one step closer to reality as two of the companies trying to comercialize the technology are now the same." (US readers, read "administration" as "bankruptcy.")

6 of 48 comments (clear)

  1. Surgeon General's Warning by daveime · · Score: 2, Funny

    Putting your head between your portable kettle and your microwave emitting kettle charger can seriously damage your health.

  2. administration isn't chapter 7 by igb · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In UK law, administration is closer to US Chapter 11 than Chapter 7; the company is assumed to be capable of being returned to the status of a going concern, rather than a set of assets and liabilities pending liquidation. But in the US the management of the company would normally remain as debtors in possession; in the UK an administrator is more hands-on than a US trustee, has to be agreed by the court, and works for the creditors rather than the shareholders. ian

  3. I thought tesla already did all this?? by FictionPimp · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought tesla already perfected wireless power and the US government covered it all up. Didn't he once drive a electric car using a wireless power source he made from a few bucks in parts from a radio shop?

    1. Re:I thought tesla already did all this?? by wattrlz · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wasn't that a duplication machine that The Great Danton modified to operate as such?

    2. Re:I thought tesla already did all this?? by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Interesting

      There is a claim that Tesla drove an electric car powered only by a small device that he made from simple parts purchased from a retail store, yes.

      However, there is no verification of this claim (like many of the other claims of Tesla's supposedly-amazing inventions.)

      While there is a great tendency to credit these claims (I have it too) there is no supporting evidence except one supposed-eyewitness account. The best I would say is that if I would believe it of anyone, I would believe it of Tesla, who saw the design for efficiently producing AC fully-formed in his head while reciting (or was it listening to?) a poem.

      --
      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  4. Look at the vaporware tag.. by hansraj · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hopefully this means that interoperable wireless power is one step closer to reality.. So you mean "one step closer" in a Zeno sense?