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Wireless Energy!

news.bbc.co.uk — BBC reporting on new research towards getting rid of having to plug in your laptop/cell/etc to recharge something. Instead it seems actually possible to transmit power up to 3 to 5 meters away, using resonance.

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  • CXUK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I have been saying this for years that this will be next major innovation.
    • snodin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Until they find that it gives everyone around it cancer
    • oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"Until they find that it gives everyone around it cancer"

      i doubt it'll be that severe, it'll probably just be something more subtle like your sperm won't have a tail but your kids will.
    • theLured, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0oOLiquidNightOo, I don't really want to test out your theory.

      For best sperm reducing results use a wireless energy powered laptop.
      Slogan:
      wireless energy, for the man on the go with no kids to show.
  • seripd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sounds suspiciously like Tesla's Tower
    • oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i thought the exact same thing.
  • zkirill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love science, although two questions come up:
    1. can you make it less clunky then what it looks like in the picture? Does the "receiver" have to be outside the unit?
    2. any negative health side effects?
  • egrabosky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2is this another one of woot.com's april fools? anyone remember that?
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