Sony Prototype Sends Electricity Through the Air

itwbennett writes "Sony announced Friday that it has developed a prototype power system based on magnetic resonance that can send 'a conventional 100 volt electricity supply over a distance of 50 centimeters to power a 22-inch LCD television.' Unfortunately, Sony's prototype wasted 1/5 of the power fed into it and additional losses 'occurred in circuitry connected to the secondary coil so the original 80 watts of power was cut by roughly a quarter to 60 watts once it had made its way through the system.'"

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One thing we know for sure

[oldspewey]

If this is a Sony technology, you better believe the electricity is going to be in some kind of proprietary format that requires you to purchase special electrons at a 30% premium over industry standard.

Re:It's a start

[JeanBaptiste]

I don't know, if they could make it out to 1000 barleycorns or even several rods, i'd buy a hogshead of them next fortnight.

Missed it by that much!

[Citizen of Earth]

Only another 42,163.9995 km to go to use this to send solar power from geosynchronous orbit.

Sony Should Shop At ThinkGeek

[Rary]

Quick! Somebody buy the Sony engineers a pair of these!