Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 3:47pm
It must be great being the Army and being able to say, "Hey, wireless charging sounds cool, let's pour a couple million into it and see if we can up the range to, let's say, fifty feet! Okay? AWESOME!"
Wireless power stories
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 1:02pm
Wireless charging has a bit of a dinosaur-and-egg problem: there are few products for it because nobody uses it, and nobody uses it because there are few products for it. Duracell hopes to make it easy and cheap for anyone to retrofit their phone to be completely wireless with a skinny little pad called the Powermat WiCC.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 9:07pm
Say goodbye to range anxiety with the electric car you don't have yet if Stanford makes this project a reality: by embedding resonating magnetic coils under roads, you'd be able to charge your car while you drive and get to your destination with more juice in your batteries than when you left.
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 11:58am
What's the problem with a table covered in solar panels? Well, if you actually put anything on it that covers the panels, it stops working. So it's a good thing, then, that it transmits the power it harvests to your mobile devices wirelessly.
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 3:13pm
The future is definitely going to be wireless, and not just when it comes to data. eCoupled has been figuring out ways to power and charge all of your stuff without wires, from cell phones to laptops to Tesla Roadsters.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 9:58am
Fulton Innovation teased us earlier this year with its eCoupled wireless power tech, near-field inductive coupling to charge gadgets a few inches away as if by magic. Now they've spread things out, wirelessly powering a 12-watt light bulb from 3...
Friday, July 24, 2009 - 1:06am
For a few years now the idea of wireless power has been a shining light in the lives of gadgeteers, whose homes resemble cable repositories. At the TED Global 2009 conference this week, it got one step closer. Eric Giler,...
Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 11:30pm
Peripatetic Slav-American inventor Nikola Tesla, who invented AC power and a host of other of the electronic technologies that we take for granted, envisioned a world in which power was broadcast to devices like radio (which he also invented)....
Friday, August 22, 2008 - 11:47am
The final frontier of wireless tech is upon us, with Intel showing off its electricity flying through the air with better efficiency than ever. While it’s not the first wireless power transmitting device we’ve seen, this one uses resonance...
