http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/ Engadget Comments for 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/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/
The first thought, how did a random student find something that huge technology companies havent found? (I know that this is kind of a naive statement on my part, as many things are invented out of the blue that later seem like common sense... and young minds are often the best for this because they have less preconceptions and are better equipped to innovate).

The second was a largely disbelief. As a chemical engineering student, I may not be directly educate to understand this situation, but many of the thought processes are similar... But I still have a hard time understanding how a wireless transmission (even on such a small scale) would be more efficient then wired. My only thought is that on that small of a scale, the wired components are so poorly insulated that there is a relatively large loss... But It is not my field so perhaps I am entirely mistaken.

My third (delayed) thought, was that of pride. For Canada, for Ottawa Universities, for students... etc. A breakthrough like this has the potential to drastically impact the technology world, good on him, and if he makes millions, he deserves it. Battery life has always been the main focus of my gadget fetish... combine advances like this with new battery tech and I'm in heaven.

Ohhhhhh and sorry about the game thing... my roommate and I always spontaneously lose it when we talk =\]]>Dec 19th 2008 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/
... huh...]]>Dec 19th 2008 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/
(For the people to lazy to read the original article rather than Engadget's "sexed-up" headline:)
He found the power requirements to drive the signal from the main chip to the antennae could be reduced by a factor of 12x by replacing them with a micro-transmitter/receiver system. Now, the antennae is still powered in the same way it was before and the micro-"antennae" also runs off the same battery but that simple wire link that is no longer required does reduce power consumption.
Unfortunately, you won't get 12x battery life on your phone. The power requirements for the wires that links the chips to the main antennae are going to be relatively small when compared to the power required to actually power the LCD or even the main antennae itself!]]>Dec 19th 2008 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/
and seems like the same thing would apply if you created a wireless connection to an externally powered anything (LCD, or Wifi, or Bluetooth, etc) ...so what am i missing here? where's the breakthrough? ]]>Dec 19th 2008 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/
Engadget just copied the headline from her article. She is the one that translated "one small component will consume 1/12 the power" into "battery will last 12 times longer".
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to sum it all up, put it on the store shelves or stfu and gtfo.

How much of these "breakthoughts" and promises have we seen in the last decade?

Somehow they all make alot of noise for a week or two and then disappear completely and no-one ever hears about them again while the battery life in our devices remains pathetic year after year...]]>Dec 19th 2008 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/
If at least ONE of those "improved battery life" that popped last year were implemented, our cellphones power should last at least 3 times longer.]]>Dec 19th 2008 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/
Whack a modern battery into a 10 year old phone and you'll be impressed. ]]>Dec 19th 2008 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/
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The market accepts that... people would rather double the usefulness and reliability of a system than gain an extra 5 seconds of boot time for a computer or load time for a console game. I would rather have better phone download speeds than an extra day of battery life, since I only need to charge every night or two anyway.]]>Dec 19th 2008 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/
The old way is like telephones. To get your phone call from you to your friend.. your phone needs power.. the giant switching building needs power, the HQ needs power, the next switch needs power then to your friends house who needs power.

Or you could just use the walkie talkies which means only your houses need power.

Remember, you take 90% efficiency for everything.. It only takes about 25 times before you can find that 12x increase. My guess is in a phone theres atleast 25 components in there.]]>Dec 19th 2008 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/

Then WTF was the airplane mode for?]]>Dec 19th 2008 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/
Remember the gravity lamp? (http://pesn.com/2008/02/19/9500471_Gravity_Lamp/) It even received an award, it must be real!

background reading: http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/03/03/stop-press-pixie-dust-unsuitable-for-household-lighting/
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Apple has $25Bn in the bank collecting dust and interest. This seems like a worthy investment for a small fraction of that, if the results haven't been misinterpreted and the benefits hold up in a variety of mobile scenarios.]]>Dec 19th 2008 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/A simple thing as connecting from point A to B becomes a huge calculation exercise.
Really sucks.]]>Dec 21st 2008 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/
Quote:
"He estimates his module consumes 12 times less power than the traditional, wired-transmitter module. It is also much simpler in design, lowering the overall cost of any hand-held device, he said."

So we're talkin' about the radio transmitter only. It's still pretty significant...]]>Dec 19th 2008 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/
Engadget, Quit 'exaggerating' your headlines to get page views. You've lost what little credibility you've ever had.


Not as many people may have paid attention to this headline if it said "Student's tech provides significant increase in battery life", but at least you wouldn't be lying to your readers... *cough*
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I have a BS in CS, with honors, salutatorian.

and I think this is possible.

everyone read my opinion because of my education!]]>Dec 19th 2008 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/students-tech-promises-12x-the-battery-life-in-your-iphone-bla/Dec 19th 2008 2:33PM