A guy I worked with his son had broken the antenna on his implant in the playground at school. They could get it working by squeezing his head in just the right way to close the break in the antenna wire.
Think about the power needed to keep mobile phones loaded with applications working though the day. It would be okay if you could be stuffed plugging it into USB whenever you sat down but thats too hard. But if you can drop it on to a charging pad from time to time the battery need never go down.
Yeah but that ignores inductive coupling. I suppose there might be warnings for people with pacemakers around these things but they already get exposed to that much power from AC fields around big transformers, etc.
My wife and I tend to drop our phones in standard places in the house, then plug them in at night. This way the phones will charge when they are put down.
Charging mats will recognize when a device is fully charged and then consume a trickle of energy in standby mode
Okay thats interesting. We all use wireless (inductive) power in other places and while, yeah, the cheap plugpack segment is mostly switchmode now I wonder if there are places where the efficency of transformers could be improved with a digital back channel which says send me this much power.
that they don't get their imperial units mixed up with metric units, and freeze the thing to -414C instead.
Thinking about those lasers which are used to cool small particles to near zero temperatures. Can the photons from those lasers be considered to have a negative temperature, because of the energy they remove from the particles being cooled?
Really? You don't even support phones you sell? I can understand not supporting phones that others sell, but you won't even service what you sell?
Its normal outside the US for users to casually change networks by changing SIM cards in phones. Here in Australia I would say that at least 50% of the time phones are not used on networks they were bought for, and many phones are bought outright, without contracts.
When my wife was in Malaysia recently she bought a SIM to use for local calls during her stay.
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Do babies come with Induction coils?
A few.
A guy I worked with his son had broken the antenna on his implant in the playground at school. They could get it working by squeezing his head in just the right way to close the break in the antenna wire.
It only works with direct contact, like 1mm away. No further than that.
The article implies a data channel from the device to the charger so the charger knows when not to deliver power.
Think about the power needed to keep mobile phones loaded with applications working though the day. It would be okay if you could be stuffed plugging it into USB whenever you sat down but thats too hard. But if you can drop it on to a charging pad from time to time the battery need never go down.
Yeah but that ignores inductive coupling. I suppose there might be warnings for people with pacemakers around these things but they already get exposed to that much power from AC fields around big transformers, etc.
Its an option for the palm pre as well.
My wife and I tend to drop our phones in standard places in the house, then plug them in at night. This way the phones will charge when they are put down.
If you just keep the phone on the mat it will rarely take hours to charge.
Yeah different physical interfaces but that can't be an issue in this case.
You could put the baby beside a phone or camera which requests power, but even then its only five watts which is not going to do any damage.
-cough- USB -cough-
Its just where you normally charge the phone, except you don't have to plug it in.
Charging mats will recognize when a device is fully charged and then consume a trickle of energy in standby mode
Okay thats interesting. We all use wireless (inductive) power in other places and while, yeah, the cheap plugpack segment is mostly switchmode now I wonder if there are places where the efficency of transformers could be improved with a digital back channel which says send me this much power.
Bah, instead, I am still using an Enigma machine that my grandfather brought me back. He stole it from the ennemy while in combat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine
You should count yourself lucky that Alan Turing died all those years ago, otherwise your data could be compromised.
Use PGP. Create a really long key, like 4096 bits.
Those Omen movies will have to be remade.
As a (former) mathematician
How do you stop being a mathematician? (you don't seem to have stopped).
Its got the number of the beast in it. Quick, ring Robert Heinlein.
Right, except for the whole "that would be in contravention of the Arms Export Control Act of 1976" thing.
Oh that ole thing? Wno knows? Maybe some of these laptops are going to be recalled from countries covered by that act.
that they don't get their imperial units mixed up with metric units, and freeze the thing to -414C instead.
Thinking about those lasers which are used to cool small particles to near zero temperatures. Can the photons from those lasers be considered to have a negative temperature, because of the energy they remove from the particles being cooled?
First! ...In line to be frozen at the moment of my death.
You want to die by freezing? Doesn't sound very nice to me.
Really? You don't even support phones you sell? I can understand not supporting phones that others sell, but you won't even service what you sell?
Its normal outside the US for users to casually change networks by changing SIM cards in phones. Here in Australia I would say that at least 50% of the time phones are not used on networks they were bought for, and many phones are bought outright, without contracts.
When my wife was in Malaysia recently she bought a SIM to use for local calls during her stay.
It's version 2.1 of the software
Probably because google, like the authors of dbase are aware of this exact problem.
If it is a really crappy microphone it could be considered a digital device. Perhaps that is what they mean?
Acer should just exchange the computers and sell the faulty ones in Yemen.