Wireless Power Consortium Pushes for "Qi" Standard

The Wireless Power Consortium (comprised of Samsung, Sanyo, Olympus, Philips, Texas Instruments, and others) has started a push towards a wireless charging standard under the moniker "Qi" (pronounced "chee"). "Members of the Wireless Power Consortium are reviewing version 0.95 of its technical specification which defines a proposed standard for charging devices, using up to 5Watts power, delivered by electromagnetic induction. The spec could evolve into a standard — and will be demonstrated by multiple vendors on September 15th to 16th. ... It is less ambitious than the system demonstrated this summer by Witricity, which operates at a distance of a few meters, using resonance, which the company claims has green benefits through replacing disposable batteries."

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Re:Pronounced "Chee"

[Again]

...for those that don't want to read the summary but may wish to discuss it intelligently in person.

There. Fixed that for you.

A step in the right direction

[Peter Steil]

This is definitely a step in the right direction. I know it's really frustrating looking for a non-standard plug for my phone. I'm sure the days of searching for the right power adapter are limited.

Yucky.

[Fantastic Lad]

Kind of like the corruption of the Elves into Orcs in LOTR, the idea of charging the air with yet more EM pollution and calling it "Qi" makes a sick mockery of the real thing.

And there's a frickin' pyramid with an eye ball on the dollar bill.

We're being laughed at even as we are mutilated and enslaved.

Cue the conceited, ill-informed rationalizations.

-FL

Re:Yucky.

[Fantastic Lad]

What is the real thing? How can it be measured and tested? Couldn't it be used for evil, as well as good?

I just call it 'energy' but nobody I know seems entirely clear on what exactly it is. My guess is that it is simply another variation of the unstable wave forms from which atomic matter is constructed, but that doesn't really help much since the same could be said of anything. It's hard to test for in the kind of way which would establish things once and for all because our technology and scientific understanding of reality hasn't worked out how to define or measure 'energy', and so it is discounted. It also seems to be tightly linked to awareness; if you don't believe it should be there, then it tends to obey. While quantum theory allows some space for such things, more traditional approaches to science have a lot of difficulty accepting that some aspects of reality exist relative to the state of the observer. When concrete examples of such unknown forces which fall into the same category as 'energy' rise, (and they do from time to time; we've had one or two recently), they are often ignored or otherwise awkwardly received and quietly forgotten about. Our public arena scientists simply aren't wise (or free) enough yet to look at these things clearly. Until then, one must test on a person by person basis. Like scientifically proving dreams exist; it can't be done, yet it doesn't make dreams any less a part of the human experience.

Can it be used for Good as well as Evil? Well, since Good and Evil are moving targets, I'd say, "Sure". In fact, I'd suggest that flooding the environment with EM radiation is probably not far from the evil end of the spectrum. The electromagnetic spectrum seems to be somewhat related to 'energy' in how it affects certain elements of reality and human awareness.

I'm also not aware of any evidence that this "EM pollution" is harmful, but at least we sort of know what it is, and can measure its effect, so I trust it a hell of a lot more than I'd trust "real" Qi, if you managed to produce any.

No? That tells me a lot about you; Like most taboo knowledge, it's not hidden, it's just not broadcast on prime-time television. You could benefit enormously from doing some rather easy research. I'd start with Robert O. Becker's book, Cross Currents. They have used copies for around five dollars. If you want to know things that the power brokers of the world don't want you to know, then you aren't going to find out by dancing for the little people who are certainly going to laugh at you. You have to put in a little effort and grow a bit of a spine.

Much luck to you!

-FL

So...

[FlyingSquidStudios]

Will Nintendo adopt it? Because I want a Qi Wii. And assemble it in Finland so the factory's website will be QiWii.fi

Re:So...

[rabiddeity]

Why not New Zealand instead of Finland? Then you could have a Kiwi Qi Wii.

Re:Transliteration is dumb

[Slartibartfass]

Can you imagine how boring and hideous it would be if every word was spelled phonetically?

You mean like, french?

Re:Health Issues?

[el3mentary]

Watt is the unit of Power?

I'm sorry I'll get my coat

Re:This standard will fail

[Fex303]

Just because it has a name that is not intuitively pronounceable. Idiots.

Yeah, just like Nintendo's latest console, which flopped because its name was both not intuitively pronounceable. Does anyone even remember the Wii?

Re:Qi: The Greatest of All Scrabble Words

[fractoid]

Great. Now whenever I see 'qi' I'll mentally pronounce it as 'aieee! *pound*'