(CNN) — Electronics such as phones and laptops may start shedding their power cords within a year.
Wireless electricity may soon make tangled power cords a thing of the past.
That’s the prediction of Eric Giler, CEO of WiTricity, a company that’s able to power light bulbs using wireless electricity that travels several feet from a power socket.
WiTricity’s version of wireless electricity — which converts power into a magnetic field and sends it sailing through the air at a particular frequency — still needs to be refined a bit, he said, but should be commercially available soon.
Giler, whose company is a spinoff of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology research group, says wireless electricity has the potential to cut the need for power cords and throw-away batteries.
“Five years from now, this will seem completely normal,” he said.
Thanks for the heads up to the video Jägermeister.
I can only imagine the lawyers this will support.
#20 it’s safe. Stick your finger in the cradle that charges your electric toothbrush. Similar wireless power tranfer but over millimeter distances. The only thing that may happen is your hair turns blond.
Electric cars seem like a natural use for this product — there could be special charging parking lots and maybe even stretches of road.
The cordless distance could be very close — virtually touching, which I assume would increase the efficiency.
Much better than plugging-in.
However, the safety of it nags at me. I’m not prone to paranoia about these things but it does seem like a potential danger.
Wireless electricity has been around for a long time. Tesla came up with it first. It works. The problem is most of the power is wasted.
I’m curious as to how this will affect the bees.
http://tinyurl.com/l58ctg
#25, I forgot to add
Just be sure to remove all jewelry, metal zippers, partial dentures or bridges, surgically implanted screws and pins, those rivets on your Levi’s jeans, wire-rim glasses, spiral-bound notebooks, delicate electronics (computers, MP3 players, TVs, etc.). You may need to replace all the metal nails holding your home together with plastic zip ties as well.
On the face of it, this sounds like a BAD idea. I can totally see it for things like toothbrushes, phones, laptops, etc. where the thing being charged is very close (1mm or less) to the charging pad, but distances measured in feet? No way.
-given what we ignore, this is an insane idea.
and people wonder why the government rushed in to confiscate all of Tesla’s papers & work when he died, (in the name of national security, of course)
Given the huge wealth of data on the extreme detrimental effects that pulsing electromagnetic energy has on cell biology, DNA and behaviour, i’m guessing the people pushing this tech have major stock in the health care industry.
The Russians have done huge work in this area. -they pay hazard pay to all who work around hi-power electromagnetic or RF energy radiating devices. this includes telecom switch houses, electric generation plants radar faculties and the like.
to affirm it, their maximum allowable “safe” RF energy exposure specs are 10x lowers than ours. -i believe that was in the 70′s iirc.
-if the people here only knew how much info is being suppressed in this area..
-feel sorry for anyone who lives on the top floor of an apartment building with a bank of cell phone repeaters sitting above their window. (not to mention the long term effects of blue tooth headsets)
#25 -yeah, i think it’s pretty sad that both scientists and governments around the world completely ignore well documented EM energy effects on Bees. (as well migratory birds)
All the drumming aside, it wouldn’t surprise me if the devices actually extract radiant energy from the surrounding aether and use the whole “wireless transmission” malarkey as a cover.
It’s only way i can see it being efficient enough *and safe* for household use.
-i mentioned a month or so ago, that we would start seeing devices based on new magnetics. -did not think they would show ’till January
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We’ve heard this before and it never came to light.
of course, the other fun thing you can do with EM resonance is mind control..
-just look at all the frequencies we know of already for brainwave entrainment.
“here, allow to install these coils into your walls, for your wireless convenience–muhahahhhaaa.
-i kid you not.
Grandpa Munster did this back in the 60s.It blew out all the streetlights on Mockingbird lane.