Yeah it's nothing new but I can see real revolutionary uses for it.
OK as others have mentions you can ditch all those chargers and recharge all your gadgets all around the house/car/office on a standard pad. Nice but not revolutionary.
However what about this:
I am a school teacher, just got an interactive whiteboard in my classroom. It's great, really helps my teaching.
In the near future every kid is going to have a computer on their desk requiring power. It will be a nightmare wiring up old Victorian (in the UK) classrooms to support 30 computers.
How about putting an inductive flooring down based on this tech with receivers in the bottom of table legs, the power then goes up the table leg to either the built in computer or to the desktop where student can put down and use their laptops without running down the battery. Desks can still be moved around, taken out of the classroom or extra desks brought in. All with zero hassle.
The applications in other areas are just as revolutionary EPOS, offices etc.
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Yeah it's nothing new but I can see real revolutionary uses for it. OK as others have mentions you can ditch all those chargers and recharge all your gadgets all around the house/car/office on a standard pad. Nice but not revolutionary. However what about this: I am a school teacher, just got an interactive whiteboard in my classroom. It's great, really helps my teaching. In the near future every kid is going to have a computer on their desk requiring power. It will be a nightmare wiring up old Victorian (in the UK) classrooms to support 30 computers. How about putting an inductive flooring down based on this tech with receivers in the bottom of table legs, the power then goes up the table leg to either the built in computer or to the desktop where student can put down and use their laptops without running down the battery. Desks can still be moved around, taken out of the classroom or extra desks brought in. All with zero hassle. The applications in other areas are just as revolutionary EPOS, offices etc.