http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/ Engadget Comments for Nagano Japan shows off yet another contactless charging system 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/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/Aug 20th 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/Aug 20th 2009 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/
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and to engadget... Citation needed. Many people talk about magnet resonance the same way people might talk about light bulbs. But few give technical details of what the heck is going on. Light bulbs are simple. Induction is simple. Transformers... well those are complicated. Magnetic resonance? Just try and look it up. It's right up there with free energy and cold fusion.

Lots of people are very good at Nuclear magnetic resonance. But thats just vibrating magnetic fields with an em pulse. Its not the same thing thats going on here. The closest I can find is a simple, "vibrate this field, and that one starts to vibrate to." and some how its not ac power transmission, or induction. wha?]]>Aug 20th 2009 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/Aug 20th 2009 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/
XFMRs are not that complicated. Quite the opposite in fact. As far as electrical distribution equipment goes, it's pretty simple.

This is indeed just an air-core transformer. Two "conductors" with air replacing the iron core...obviously, the efficiency changes due to the change in permitivity and conductivity of the air in relation to iron...but it still operates under the same basic principles. ]]>Aug 20th 2009 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/Aug 20th 2009 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/
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AGREED! The man was a certified genius. It's sad that he doesn't get the true credit he deserves. He's up there with Edison in my book.]]>Aug 20th 2009 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/]]>Aug 20th 2009 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/]]>Aug 20th 2009 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/Of course since details were lost AFAIK and it became folklore the stories continues to evolve, and might in its original form already be highly exaggerated.
]]>Aug 20th 2009 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/Aug 20th 2009 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/Aug 20th 2009 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/
Didn't we learn this in 6th grade?]]>Aug 20th 2009 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/And just because you can do it in a shielded laboratory doesn't mean it's usable in normal circumstances, what with interference with other equipment and such, I think there's tons of stuff you can do in laboratories in all kinds of fields of technology that you just can't use in a normal home.
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I can make a simpler system than this. Grab a 4' long fluorescent tube and stand under high tension power lines. Under the right conditions, the tube will flicker and light up slightly. Bam! Magnetic resonance in action.

Why does Engadget print articles from people who are showing you the same stuff your electric toothbrush has been silently doing in your bathroom for over a decade? That Wacom tablets have done for over a decade?]]>Aug 20th 2009 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/Aug 20th 2009 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/Aug 20th 2009 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/
The news here is that we're able to achieve energy transmission with greater efficiency at greater range, and apply the technology to higher-energy applications (possibly). So it's news. Pacemakers and electric toothbrushes maybe have a 80-85% efficiency at distances less than 5 cm; this is a drastic improvement. Flatley may have misrepresented this, though (What is this, FOX? What's with the hype?), and made it seem more revolutionary than it is.]]>Aug 20th 2009 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/Aug 20th 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/Aug 20th 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/Aug 20th 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/Aug 20th 2009 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/Aug 20th 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/Aug 20th 2009 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/nagano-japan-shows-off-yet-another-contactless-charging-system/
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happy now?]]>Aug 21st 2009 12:13AM