WTF?Intel develops WIRELESS power system, no cords!

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080821/ts_afp/usitinternetenergychipcompanyintel

 "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.
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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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Oh and imagine its uses for Bodybuilding.

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Nicola Tesla invented that, fuck Intel

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080821/ts_afp/usitinternetenergychipcompanyintel

 "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.
ADVERTISEMENT

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."

"

Oh and imagine its uses for Bodybuilding.

That was coming for a long time , watch when nano-technology really gets going 

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The lamp in the middle of the room has always been the problem.

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The lamp in the middle of the room has always been the problem.

My grandma wanted to run an extension cord all the way across her floor to put a lamp on her Coffee Table. 

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i had heard about this from a design seminar.  the one problem is they have to beam power in spurts from the wall to the device, so there's the same type of risk as cell phones ,except with a higher amperage. 

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Nicola Tesla invented that, fuck Intel

yes, a little over a 100 years ago, in fact.

here's the problem with wireless "electricity":

in electricity, you have voltage and amperage.

in layman's terms, let's say the amperage is the power of the electricity itself, the amount of energy in one unit of electricity.

the voltage would be the "strength" of the transmittal electricity.

think of amperage = weight on benchpress
voltage = power required to push that weight up.

with wireless electricity, it is nothing but high voltage, low amperage current.  Tesla would use millions of volts of electricity, but at very low amperage.  if the amperage was high, it would indeed kill everyone around it.

so, only half the equation is solved.

for now, it is not a viable source of electricity for powering anything other than a light bulb (but this has more to do with how a lightbulb works than the voltage & amperage required to run it).

here's a photo of tesla doing this 100 years ago.  you would need roughly the same setup in your house to have lighting:

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haha, he looks so calm sitting there reading that book.