Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system

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.

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."

yahoo news

Di ko na yata maabutan ito kung sa 2050 pa.

-----
Catch my life here.

wow! galing.... pero you know what, the problem im seeing here is kapag ang magnetic field na yan passes through anymetal along the way, that metal will induce electricity. Marami pang trabahong gagawin dito. And I think it is not exactly accurate to say that human body is not affected by magnetic field. We are, because human body comprises of little magnetic domains that reacts to magnetism, and that's the principle used why MRIs (magnetic resonance imaging) works and is being used sa hospitals.

-----

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

matagal ko na yan iniisip. tingin ko nga non pede, bakit hindi? kaya lng trap pa tayo sa technology natin ngayon. dadating ang araw pede yan.
kung metal man daanan nung mgnetic field siguro isang solusyon dyan yung bagong dinedevelop din na invisibility e. i da divert yung field around the object para "di makita"
pero ganda yan. dadating tayo dyan. w8 lng tayo.

-----

mahaba haba pang pagsasaliksik ang gagawin dyan. baka tigok na ako inde pa tapos ang pagsasaliksik dyan. pero ok itong idea na ito.

-----
Don't STEAL. The GOVERNMENT hates competition. Good in english huh!? It doesn't mean your smart enough.
my other account: crad3r (i use this only if my account is bugged)

I've seen the reports and what people have to say about this, and sure enough "witricity" or wireless electricity was praised for it's potential. I just hope it will arrive at my home before I go to my maker

-----

Worios 44:74 minerspoint

ok to! At least mababawasan yung octupus connections ko. sa dami kasi ng nakakabit na hardwares dito sa PC ko, nakakainis na.

-----
"WORK hard, PLAY hard, and see the difference in the morning!"
"Whatever plans I have in mind, Lord, I surrender them to YOU. I will do the best I can. But in the end, let Your will be done. Amen"

wireless... so basically may password to in order for you to aquire signal eh?....

-----

"problematic"

the idea itself is so cool and revolutionising that i can't really help but commend the inventors and investors, who made this impossible technology possible... i'm no engineer but i would say this is perhaps nikola tesla's legacy.

one question though: would the price of the technology be worth it?

humouring it, would it be possible to send/share power like the way we send/share mobile phone prepaid loads?

-----
"he who laughs last thinks slowest"

sana sooner eh mag work na yan..very nice kasi no more wires..good luck sa research nila..

galing siguro nun pag nagtagumpay...para kasing imposibe...

-----

MY GOOOOODNESSSS! this is breaktrough!!! pero matagal pa ito pero the best ito. sna maabutan ko to pa gna i commercial na. so prang ang kuryente available kahit saan, wla ng battery at charger needed, sna lagn maayos nila na hnd maabsorb ng human body ung electricity.

-----
ang pagbabalik ng panday!!!

whenever my cp battery gets low i used to joke around "pasa charge naman dyan " hehehhe pero i never thought the big boys(intel) would ever think of transmitting power wirelessly , it is possible just like lightning striking trees hehehehe

Ok to ah. Maganda yung concept niya,

ang galing naman nito. malulugi ang mga wire manufacturer pag nagkataon. bawas ang mga consumers nila.

-----
kung ayaw mo hwag mo....