http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/ Engadget Comments for Splashpower can't wirelessly recharge bank account, declares bankruptcy http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/
Maybe their funding money is in their backpacks and somebody stole them?]]>Apr 3rd 2008 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realise that you got offended by jokes. If I though I was hurting someone's feelings, I would have apologised - just like you can see in my post history.

Lighten up, man.
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Oh well... "back" to the drawing board!]]>Apr 3rd 2008 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/
Or maybe not.]]>Apr 3rd 2008 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/
I'm going to be quiet.]]>Apr 3rd 2008 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/
Dick as it may be, it's true. I find every reference to blending or Doom to be almost as irritating as the word "dawg"]]>Apr 3rd 2008 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/
The point of wireless is to replace _long_ wires, which can be annoying. Power cables generally aren't. And you can't do long-range wireless power: it has unknown health risks, and requires high power waves to be emitted, which has problems:
- Decays with distance squared. More power drawn by devices to charge. Environmental nightmare.
- Too much dependence on air pressure and humidity
- Very expensive

Think before you "innovate"]]>Apr 3rd 2008 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 3rd 2008 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/
And for short range, you can do what the sonicare toothbrush does yes.

With research comes efficiency. Yes, obviously it wont be as efficient (at least, at first, no one can predict the future), but neither is a 30yo woman driving a ford excursion around town, and we don't have any shortage of those.

]]>Apr 3rd 2008 11:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 4th 2008 12:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 4th 2008 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/
Not a HALF as optimistic as some of Engadget's advertisers though:

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/7250/engadget2ym2.jpg

I wouldn't want to be advertising on the same page as that kind of quackery.]]>Apr 4th 2008 6:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 4th 2008 6:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 4th 2008 6:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 4th 2008 6:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/Apr 10th 2008 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/splashpower-cant-wirelessly-recharge-back-account-declares-ban/
Splashpower has had demo-quality gear at numerous trade shows and it's clear that Splashpower's technology is being adopted by Alba for mp3 players and mobile phones and MWg for wirelessly powered smartphones. See:

http://www.splashpower.com/Press

With this commercial traction as well as the IP portfolio, I reckon it looks like a hot acquisition target.]]>Apr 10th 2008 6:21PM