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All i have to say is Tesla did it first! and everybody thought he was crazy then he got shut down by the utility companies..
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anyway.. on with it...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Intel on Thursday showed off a wireless electric power system that analysts say could revolutionize modern life by freeing devices from transformers and wall outlets.
Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner demonstrated a Wireless Energy Resonant Link as he spoke at the California firm's annual developers forum in San Francisco.
Electricity was sent wirelessly to a lamp on stage, lighting a 60 watt bulb that uses more power than a typical laptop computer.
Most importantly, the electricity was transmitted without zapping anything or anyone that got between the sending and receiving units.
"The trick with wireless power is not can you do it; it's can you do it safely and efficiently," Intel researcher Josh Smith said in an online video explaining the breakthrough.
"It turns out the human body is not affected by magnetic fields; it is affected by elective fields. So what we are doing is transmitting energy using the magnetic field not the electric field."
Examples of potential applications include airports, offices or other buildings that could be rigged to supply power to laptops, mobile telephones or other devices toted into them.
The technology could also be built into plugged in computer components, such as monitors, to enable them to broadcast power to devices left on desks or carried into rooms, according to Smith.
"Initially it eliminates chargers and eventually it eliminates batteries all together," analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group said of Intel's wireless power system.
"That is potentially a world changing event. This is the closest we've had to something being commercially available in this class."
Previous wireless power systems consisted basically of firing lightning bolts from sending to receiving units.
Smith says Intel's wireless power system is still in an early stage of development and much research remains before it can be brought to market.
Rattner spoke of technological transformations he expects by the year 2050.
"You'd like to cut the last cord," Smith said.
"It's great that we have wireless email and wireless internet and stuff like that but at the end of the day it would be nice to have wireless recharge as well." | |
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08/21/08
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cloudburst
um, human body not affected by magnetic fields??? this is really disturbing. they should read more science fiction before unleashing tech like this on the general public.
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jogn
Isn't there a correlation between higher incidences of cancer and proximity to powerstations & transformers? I don't think these guys have seen the power of a magnetic bracelet.
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jdg
dianetics for example
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ignatius
jdg said: "dianetics for example"
you're on a roll today. tom cruise might come get you if you keep this up.
and yes, there are instances of cancer near power stations. drag. i won't live w/in 3-4 blocks of a transformer station.
however, tesla didn't get cancer.. he did become a little "eccentric" but i think there is science here we do not yet understand.. by we.. i mean me. so, there must be something new in the recipe?? or who knows. either way i'm looking forward to not having a rat nest of cables in my studio in 2050 and of course uploading my thoughts into a dense nebulous web so i can battle the inevitable captain of star trek enterprise in 2100 in some far distant galaxy.
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infradead
well finally a charger than can charge my laptop while wiping the hard drive all at once
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hardvoltnine
can you float kitchen magnets in the magnetic field? That would be way more fun than charging a computer.
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elronhubbard
jdg said: "dianetics for example"
SCORE!
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kidgamma
i'm hoping that by 2050 ii'll already have at least 5 kinds of cancer
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jogn
anonymous will win!
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lematt
that "innovation" sounds like a new way of giving us new cancers... but we'll realize it in 2090, if it starts in 2050...
08/22/08
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sAMsKi
Haha. Doom mongers. 2090? Wont we all be under water by then...?
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cloudburst
no, we'll be _out_ of water by then.
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phundamental
cloudburst said: "um, human body not affected by magnetic fields??? this is really disturbing. they should read more science fiction before unleashing tech like this on the general public."
Yes, because there isn't anything magnetic in your body. Why would it be affected?
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Radio909
jdg said: "dianetics for example" bob on
I dont like the sound of this at all. There was a study carried out that proved that the majority of leukaemia cases were 70% higher with families lving near electricity pylons link
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Radio909
Why do we need wireless when we can have our own power sources
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