Friday, June 8th 2007
MIT Scientists Invent Wireless Electricity
Completely changing the way we use electricity, a group from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has successfully beamed electricity from a magnetic coil to a 60 watt light bulb 7 feet away. The phenomenon called electromagnetic induction is already used in transformers and electric motors but they must be close enough for power to pass from one another. Dr Soljacic, the lead researcher on the project, discovered that a transmitter could be used to fill a room with a 'non-radiative' electromagnetic field rather than the traditional transmitter/receiver method powering electric devices wirelessly. For a diagram of how WiTricity works follow the link.
Source:
Daily Mail
33 Comments on MIT Scientists Invent Wireless Electricity
cya
SEB WAS RIGHT!
noooooooooooooooo
To all you people who ever accidently said "wireless cables" by accident your now forgiven :p
Seb - "At least I dont need wireless cables"
Us - "Your a fag"
I like the idea, like the inovation, like the progress but I don't see this happening in daily life.
So you could stick it on someone, turn it on remotely and watch them fry :roll:
Also, since when did everything we own strongly resist magnetic waves, especially powerful ones? Say bye-bye to CRTs, harddrives, floppies (wtf who still has floppies?)
Like others said before, the idea isn’t something new....
Actually Faraday already tried that back in his time.
He dreamed about cities without cables, where power
traveled through air from stations...
He was someone far ahead from his time.... still is.
Dont electric toothbrushes charge like this?
But the idea of been able to have a line of fire is nifty. reminds me of the beam on the teleport in HL2.
EDIT:
Correct that, he demonstrated it almost 120 years ago!en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Middle_years