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Wireless Power Consortium Pushes For Standard
Slatterz writes "We've already heard about wireless power before, but now we're a step closer to throwing away our power cables and chargers. A consortium of eight companies has launched an
initiative to develop a wireless power standard. The drive was announced at the first Wireless Power Consortium conference at the Hong Kong Science Park yesterday. Most consumer electronic devices require a different charger, and the resulting tangle of wires and bulky devices is 'ugly, frustrating and inconvenient to use,' the group said. 'Wireless power charging takes away the need for wires and connectors. You simply drop your mobile phone, game device, electric shaver on the charging station and the battery is recharged,' explained Satoru Nishimura, senior manager at Sanyo."
...but that might not be such a good idea.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
You've seen what happens to tinfoil in a Microwave, right?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
This is the obvious, logical, cheap, and easy solution. Putting aside the fact that you'd need transformers built into devices as most require different voltages.
But then again, these guys have been working around "energy fields" far too long, perhaps this is a side-effect we might want to be forewarned about?
Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner demonstrated a Wireless Energy Resonant Link as he spoke at the annual Intel developers forum in San Francisco yesterday.
Rattner demonstrated this by causing his ears to light up at 60 watts of power a yard from a power transmitter operated by his assistant Igor. Only four journalists were incinerated when the power earthed through them from his fingertips.
Rattner reassured us that pumping kilowatts of power around the home through magnetic induction power is absolutely harmless. "The human body is not affected by magnetic fields," he said as one journalist with a pacemaker collapsed and another with a knee replacement watched his leg catch fire. "There's no danger whatsoever from it, any more than there is from mobile phones cooking your brain, microwave leakage blinding you, chemical waste unraveling all the DNA in your balls or statistical clusters of kids with cancer wherever high-tension power lines run overhead. Asbestos and thalidomide were horribly slandered in their day too."
"Of course, Nikola Tesla did it first in 1899," said enthusiast Albert Tedious-Anorak, 54, of Little Boring. "I detailed this at length on Wikipedia, but they refused to believe the value of my revelations on this matter due to a conspiracy of Edison fans amongst the site administrators."
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FTA: 90% efficiency when three feet apart?
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No sig today...
where can I buy that cell phone/mp3 player/PDA/e-book reader/shaver? That sounds pretty frickin handy...
Steve Jobs was supposed to announce it at Macworld. Unfortately, we've had some problems with the mass production of them. He may have to drop out of giving the keynote if we cannot solve the problem.
Edit: Apparently Steve decided to cancel for the keynote.
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