http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/ Engadget Comments for MIT's wireless electricity demoed, dubbed WiTricity http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 10th 2007 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jul 13th 2007 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/05/magnetic-implant-gives-body-modder-a-sixth-sense/


good luck]]>Jun 7th 2007 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 8th 2007 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/
People enjoy getting hysterical about the world. Some scream about evolution, some about invisible rays. Yet others rail against r-wing nuts. It's all part of the paranoid fun.]]>Jun 7th 2007 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/
Behold, the magic of induction!]]>Jun 7th 2007 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/
If you want to come up with a reason why the feds would block this one, you have to ask the question "Who benefits?" If you can't jam a power consumption meter up people's butts so you can charge them for the energy they derive from the transmitted power source a lot of really rich people will lose their shirts. They'll likely leverage their assets to ensure that this'll never see the light of air.]]>Jun 7th 2007 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Tesla was perhaps the greatest man to ever live. When it turned out the deal he got from Westinghouse for royalties on the power would have netted him untold millions, and bankrupted the company, he tore up the contract and settled for a mere $200K, just so the company could stay in business and people could have electricity.]]>Jun 7th 2007 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/
This is laughable. It assumes that science somehow needs money to work. This is false. E!=mc$

As I understand it, WiTricity uses different principles than Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower (ie. it doesn't use the electromagnetic field of the planet). It disheartens me that Tesla's magnanimous gesture to the world was in 1905! And yet no-one has even attempted to recreate it. Am I wrong about this? Has anyone made any serious attempts to mimic Tesla grandest experiment? I would seriously appreciate if anyone has an answer to this. ]]>Jun 8th 2007 1:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/
I do not think anyone has attempted to repeat what Tesla was developing. Honestly, I don't believe anyone alive today understands the principals of electromagnetism like he did. A lot of people consider him a crackpot when they hear about this particular invention, and not to mention the "death ray" (though HE never called it a death ray. It was some sort of particle weapon). However, what most people don't realize is that HE single-handedly invented the modern world. The electricity we use, motors, engines... all started with Tesla. Hell, he even invented radio remote control back in the early 1900s. He was truly a "mad scientist". It is fortunate for us all that he was such a humanitarian. He is on record of believing that he could have cracked the world in half by sending the proper frequency through the crust... and considering how much of what he did actually did work, it is hard to disbelieve him. (He also thought he was receiving radio signals from Mars... but at that time, "Mars" was synonymous with "outer space", so who knows what he was seeing or where it came from. He may have detected pulsars long before anyone else did.)]]>Jun 8th 2007 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/
Broadcast power is one of those terms along with "amazing pain relieving device" and perpetual motion, which generally signify a scam in operation. That they got 2 out of 3 going here is really quite impressive.

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http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/wec.shtml

With a 300' range, I dare say you couldn't buy *wired* extension cords at that price!

(Note to the silly: yes, this is silly.)]]>Jun 7th 2007 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/
CANCER!!

I'll let some early adopters try it out and see if cancer rates spike before I go near this...]]>Jun 7th 2007 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 7th 2007 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://db.tidbits.com/article/07620
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http://www.powercastco.com

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Have the lightbulb suspended by one of those magnetic "anti-grav" things, while being illuminated... Eventually, as the technology spreads, it would progressively get less cool I would imagine...

I just cant wait for a reasonable distance battery-free wireless mouse :P]]>Jun 7th 2007 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://bea.st/sight/lightbulb/ - I just finished a new version and it will be at Sonar in Barcelona next week.. levitating at about 2.5"...]]>Jun 7th 2007 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/Jun 9th 2007 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/
Just think of getting home, and setting your cell down on the "Surface" coffee table and it starts charging, as well as offering all the fancy options that they are currently thinking about with Surface.

Amazing stuff.]]>Jun 7th 2007 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/
Please stop spreading this nonsense. It's got power-crystals and witch-burning written all over it, and any serious scientist will shake his head at your misunderstandings.]]>Jun 7th 2007 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/07/mits-wireless-electricity-demoed-dubbed-witricity/
Taken from memory, Robert Golka tried to duplicate some of Tesla's results in the late 70's / early 80's(?) I believe. But it appeared he needed MUCH more energy than Tesla did.

According to TCBOR (Tesla Coil Builders of Rochmond(?, again, from memory..), one reason could be because he didn't understand Tesla's 3-coil system. Some guys (last name Corum, brothers?) have a rather lengthy and theoretical explanation of this, early 90's. Google or ed2k p2p it.

I don't know if he tried to replicate wireless electricity though. The principle seems simple enough though, even for DIY'ers, and probably have been for several decades already.(I'm just too lazy or un-zkilled)

Glad more people realize this is just good'ol Tesla-stuff.
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Freeman is right about the cancer. Hysteria and a lack of education run hand-in-hand, so you should all listen up to what he wrote. Brilliant in that he provides FACTs and not FEARs, as many others have. Nice work, Freeman, it's good to see some logic out there.

Last but not least, please visit the following link: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/05/1000_flouresent_lights_po.html
It's visual proof that, along with Powercast, wireless extension chords and other gadgmoz, this potential is far more 'available' and closer to true utilization than people understand. The link even provides a photograph for those of you who don't read (but if you don't read, how did you get this far down the list of comments?)...

Ahoy!
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Chinese may have invented the gunpowder, but we can always invent more of it.

And yeah, by the way... What are radio waves?

And why is it not ok to use radio waves to take electricity for example to your lamps, if this "WiTricity" technology have just been "discovered"? (You know that radio amateur geek next door from you who has that weird clock that doesn't seem to need any batteries or winding, but still always work?)]]>Jun 8th 2007 2:55AM