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Sony Patent Could Let You Wirelessly Charge Your Phone From Another Device (digitaltrends.com)
One of the biggest downsides to wireless charging is the wire necessary to actually charge your device. You generally need to place your wireless charging-enabled device on a compatible charger, which needs to be plugged into a wall. Well, Sony hopes to make the process of wireless charging a bit easier as it has applied for a patent that will allow you to wirelessly charge your phone straight from someone else's phone. Digital Trends reports: The feature could be very useful. Sure, an ideal situation would be if you had access to a power outlet whenever you needed it, but the fact is we've all experienced being out and about and running out of battery. With Sony's new tech, you could essentially just "steal" power from a friend who might have a slightly more charged up device than you. The patent filling itself was discovered by What Future, and the report notes that the tech may not be limited to phones. Instead, Sony could apply it to things like fridges, microwaves, TVs, computers, and really any kind of electronic device. The idea here is that all of you home devices could eventually become sources of wireless energy -- so your phone will almost always be charging if you're at home, without the need for wires.
Always Be Charging
It would allow Sony to charge one of their phones with another sony device....
If they mean using beamforming to wirelessly charge from a distance, that's one thing.
Applying a "new" inductive charger patent to "devices around the home" would just be Qi. For that matter, putting that on a phone isn't novel enough to patent, just stupid.
The patent allows you to charge your device from another device... and I'd have sworn you'd need some kind of actual hardware to do something like that.
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Just plug it in and stop wasting energy.
My charger was about 50% efficient so I understand their ban. I just miss being able to use it since it was safe to use on the rain which is important here in Seattle. I now have a plugin car that some days doesn't charge since it flips its breaker. That never happened with the illegal Mange Charger.
so now you can have a node 7 blowup with X2 the power!
Now instead of siphoning gasoline for your car, you can siphon electricity for your smartphone, and then hail an Uber. Progress!
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
In Seattle I use a 300baud modem and I got fired from my QA position when they laid off their entire QA department. Now I work as a maintenance man. I also don't like the Charter.
120 years ago Tesla tried wireless power delivery. If only we had acted together and repealed the inverse square law ...
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Same people saying conserve energy are the ones wanting the most energy wasting products because they don't know how the stuff actually works and have no idea what efficiency means.
More like PREVENT. There are patents that push the state of the art forward, saving readers thousands of hours of R&D. I doubt this is one of them. The only result will be to dissuade manufacturers from pursuing this type of wireless charging.
A cat can't teach a dog to bark.
User1: Hi, my phone is low on battery, can I charge it from your ?
User2: Sure, you are welcome!
User1: Thanks, it is full charged now.
User2: Uhm, now my phone is low on charge. Can I charge it from yours ?
User1: Sure, you are welcome!
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User1: Uhm, now my phone is dead low on battery. Can I charge it from yours ?
User2: Nope, also mine is dead.