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IDT and Intel Join Forces For Wireless Charging
MojoKid writes "Intel has selected Integrated Device Technology (IDT) to develop an integrated transmitter and receiver chipset for the company's Wireless Charging Technology (WCT) based on magnetic resonance technology, it was announced [Wednesday]. The technology won't require you to plop your smartphone or other gear on a special charging mat (based on inductive charging), but you will be able to wirelessly charge your devices from an equipped device like a notebook. In addition, magnetic resonance charging is significantly more efficient than previous generation inductive technologies and it produces less heat build up in the process. Intel didn't say when WCT will appear in shipping products, but promised to update plans and timelines at a later date."
in a car.
I would love for my phones to charge automatically when I ma in the car, or at home. No more wires.
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you have to figure that there should be a considerable magnetic field around these devices so how will this work with say Flash drives credit cards and other "stuff" that does not like being in a above background mag field??
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70 yrs after death of Tesla we're not able to figure wireless power distribution.
Right now I have about 6 different types of chargers, each plugged in in various places around the house. I would love it if I could just have a 'charging table' where you just sit your gadget on it, let it simmer, and pick it up later with a full charge.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
I remember reading a paper some years ago on magnetic resonance wireless power transfer- I do not maintain that I understand how the patent system works (or doesn't) but magnetic resonance is a natural phenomenon, and it would be interesting to see what is -in this picture- the wiggleroom for lawsuits that usually follow.
Imagine someone claiming a patent for a transformer.
The three laws of thermodynamics:(1) You can't win. (2) You can't break even. (3) You can't even quit.
Already solved this problem.
Forgive me, but every time I hear about wireless power, I think about how inefficient that sounds. Wouldn't a (more or less) direct connection to the power source be more efficient? Aren't we trying to conserve energy, and improve energy efficiency?
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
Do not place your balls or your pacemaker on or near charging device.
You are welcome on my lawn.
http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_giler_demos_wireless_electricity.html -- And considering that Tesla was thinking of this stuff in his time, I say it's overdue. Maybe profanity will become archaic simultaneously with wires.
I thought they wanted to CHARGE me money for using wifi.
When they get a "Confirmed" result, that's real data. The proposed effect happened under those conditions. When they make a number of attempts, fail, and label a myth "Busted", is when they're the least scientific. Later episodes may prove them wrong. Kind of ironic for a show named Mythbusters.
Anyway, back to the topic. Yes, your 21" CRT does indeed produce large magnetic fields when it is first turned on. There's a degaussing coil wrapped around the front of the tube, inside the enclosure. It's there to erase any stray magnetic fields on the shadow mask. It only runs for a short time.
Thereafter, magnetic fields mess up the picture, as anyone who has held a bar magnet up to a color TV or monitor can confirm.
If we could manage all those years sitting in front of huge degaussing coils, I suspect that our mag-stripe cards are pretty safe. Just exercise a little care.
"You've crossed my Line of Death!" "What? No! Where is it?" "Here in the fine print...."
Anyone made any of these as an open source project? It shouldn't be too difficult.
Heck I would love to charge my car without plugging it in. Even better if I can charge it while driving.
I'm sure they're already stating they innovated magical charging first.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
The technology won't require you to plop your smartphone or other gear on a special charging mat, but you will be able to wirelessly charge your devices from an equipped device like a notebook
Right, so, no special mat needed - just a special laptop?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I thought there was already something:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_%28wireless_power_standard%29
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/09/03/0732224/
Oh well: add another standard log onto the fire I guess.
I'm an amateur radio operator and guess what? If this fucks with my activities it will never fly. We killed broadband over power lines and we will kill wireless cell phone charging too, if it interferes with licensed operators.
Besides, unless this technology has a very long range, it will be pointless anyway. If it does have long range, it will be used for rampant electricity theft. Either way, if you think about it, it's a stupid idea.
I suspect the parent was intended as satire on people worrying about magnetic fields similar to "OMG Chemicals!"
Wireless extension cord. Everyone wants one an Intel could make billions.
I'd like a wireless charger for my laser printer, please.
Intel has a problem. All the growth in electronic devices is in areas where Intel doesn't dominate. Or even have a presence. They're desperately trying to force some Intel technology into the phone/tablet range of devices.
Wireless charging pads are a good idea, but there are at least three competing standards. The wireless charging industry needs to agree on a worldwide standard. Then get a pad into every business hotel room and every business class tray table.
Such a system would allow phone manufacturers to completely eliminate physical connectors entirely. Bluetooth and WiFi for data, this for power. Apple especially could make a perfectly sealed candy bar phone, glued together. On the upside, phones built that way could default to being water resistant, and it wouldn't be too big of a leap to make them waterproof to some reasonable depth.
Unfortunately that also means that Apple will think they can patent the idea of a socket-free phone...
(And yes, I mean that literally. They won't try to patent an implementation. They'll do their damnedest to patent the entire idea.)
IDT Audio software has a bad habit of using 50% cpu. Let's hope they use different programmers for this project. Google stacsv64.exe for a sample of IDT quality.
10% less efficiency is 10% _less_, it's wasteful, no matter how much power is involved. Wouldn't you be delighted if your vehicle was 10% more fuel efficient? And yet, the car companies will make a big show over small single digit improvements.
Instead of grandiose carbon sequestering schemes or other mad schemes to attempt to control the purported man-fuelled climate change, why not instead simply try to do things more efficiently? Energy consumption inevitably continue to grow simply because the planet's population will continue to grow. The most practical way to deal with the associated environmental impact is to lessen the byproducts through efficient consumption.
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.