Wireless Power Consortium Pushes for "Qi" Standard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday August 17, 2009 @09:11AM from the someone-call-apple dept.

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:Health Issues? by cruff · 2009-08-17 09:28 · Score: 4, Insightful

5 watts is not a lot of energy. It's not like it is an induction cook top and you are a ferrous pan or anything. :-)
Re: Pronounced "Chee" by dangitman · 2009-08-17 10:41 · Score: 3, Insightful

Anyway, why spell it "Qi" when the Chinese/Japanese language does not use the Latin script ?
Because "Qi" is sexy-looking and just begs for an elegant logo. "Chee" looks horrible and cheap.
Once again, you demonstrate why technology nerds should never be allowed to name any product or technology.

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