Intel Demonstrates Wireless Power

[WiCKeD]

Unveiled by MIT last year, intel demonstrated a working model of "WiTricity" today. With numerous practical applications, it stands to eliminate batteries and those pesky cords, once practical limitations are overcome and marketing gives it a snazzier name! "Magnetopower" or "invisijuice" anyone?

Building off work unveiled last year by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, Intel Corp. on Thursday demonstrated how to make a 60-watt light bulb glow from an energy source 3 feet away. The Intel team did it with relatively high efficiency, losing only a quarter of the energy the researchers started with.
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Wireless transmission of electricity makes use of some basic physics. Electric coils that resonate at the same frequency can transmit energy to each other at a distance.

But this technology has a long way to evolve before it becomes a commercial product. In both the MIT and the Intel work, researchers used charging coils far too large for wide-scale use.

Even so, Rattner said Intel is in the early stages of trying to modify a laptop to accept wireless power. One challenge is figuring out how to prevent the electromagnetic field from interfering with the computer's other parts, he said.

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[siegen]

This is cool.

[jhtalisman]

What about people walking through the electromagnetic waves? Seriously......isn't this dangerous?

[MrObvious]

We are bombarded with EM radiation anyway, but it probably isn't safe. There are some minor concerns over cell phones, which use far less than this would.

But it does have potential.

[siegen]

Next step, solar satellites orbiting the sun and beaming energy back to us.

Well that might be a little further off.

[caraboose]

Originally Posted by siegen

This is cool.

Very cool indeed.

[megaclocker]

This, smell like cancer.

[titin200]

lol you can get cancer from anything, all you here on the news is this causes cancer that cause cancer. You can get cancer from burnt toast lol

[Maniac]

this isn't anything new:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_energy_transfer
http://www.google.com/search?client=...utf-8&oe=utf-8

Additional Comment:

Originally Posted by jhtalisman

What about people walking through the electromagnetic waves? Seriously......isn't this dangerous?

have you ever heard of the earth's electromagnetic field?

[thread]

The earth has a magnetic field yes, but it only fluctuates once every 40,000 years or something. It's changes in magnetic fields that generate electricity, EMF and potentially cancer-causing chemical reactions.

[CybrSlydr]

Tesla, anyone?...

[treymacdaddy]

In both the MIT and the Intel work, researchers used charging coils far too large for wide-scale use.

this looks promising, computers were huge 20 years ago, look at them now. with the way technology is advancing i would give this 10 years.

[Almost Tactf]

I wonder if this would work like cell phone signals......"Oh, I'm sorry sig..disf....soidoismc.....siodnsoidcnoisdo....... " Then the **** thing just shuts down due to lack of power and signal puts a new spin on dead zones

[propaintball]

Wow... My invention has been made!

Plus, it has been proven the waves that come from mobiles dont cause cancer.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7229003.stm

Think about it. I think you have have cancer already, the amount of waves there would be going through you constantly, Radio, Wireless from home networks, mobile phones, everything.

[BRONiUS]

Tesla invented this 100 years ago, too bad government keeps those plans in secret.

[Mastericy]

Tesla did the lightbulb trick from more than 2 miles out of his last (enormous) wireless energy tower... and this was more than 100 years ago. As others have mentioned, this is nothing new.

Edit: Beat me...sort of It's also true, the US Government took all of his work to be their own after he died. They recovered all of his experiments and classified most of them.

This technology came from the same guy that invented almost every part of a shortwave radio, as well. Interesting, huh?

[propaintball]

I know Tesla invented it xD

[Vertigo Boost]

cant wait this is develope farther

Originally Posted by siegen

Next step, solar satellites orbiting the sun and beaming energy back to us.

Well that might be a little further off.

yea, and what will they do when they miss the reciever and fry a hole in the ground?

[Maniac]

Originally Posted by Vertigo Boost

yea, and what will they do when they miss the reciever and fry a hole in the ground?

Haven't you ever played SimCity 2000? Obviously a microwave ray blasts the earth ^^.

[CybrSlydr]

Originally Posted by Maniac

Haven't you ever played SimCity 2000? Obviously a microwave ray blasts the earth ^^.

Bwahahahahaahahaha!!!!!

+1 for Epic Classic Game reference