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M9ROC
Aug 22, 2008 9:11 AM
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This looks amazing and will be exciting to see how this develops. However, is there any health hazards with this? Wouldn't it be like living beside a powerfield with a Chernobyl effect? Then there'd be a new movie made on it: Erin Brockovich 2.
Comment made about the PC Authority article:
Intel: Laptops could get power wirelessly?
It looks like a high school science project, but is actually the first step towards one day wirelessly powering your notebook or mobile phone.
What do you think? Join the discussion. |
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Pacman
Aug 22, 2008 9:23 AM
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Sorry, but Tesla already invented this almost 100 years ago. He was going to power everything via wireless electricity and almost did just that, were it not for the sabotage by his competitors who grew insanely jealous of this great inventor.
It could of been huge, but the FBI raided all his research right after his death - so we'll never know. But I would love to see where they are keeping those files now (and what they've done with his research).
Tesla's secret
Edited by Pacman: 22/8/2008 09:30:07 AM
Edited by Pacman: 22/8/2008 09:30:27 AM |
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William Maher
Aug 22, 2008 10:23 AM
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It's funny you mention that - there's someone here with a tesla coil. He's well a known hobbyist. Not sure I want to go near that thing. |
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William Maher
Aug 22, 2008 10:25 AM
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Intel didn't discover/invent this - something which they expained after the demo. They saw an MIT demo of something similar, but with much bigger coils, and got interested in reducing the size for notebooks. |
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midbear
Aug 22, 2008 12:03 PM
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Maybe this will become the new "hotspot" Come in get your coffee and your laptop an phone charged at the same time plus a free dose of Tesla's rads LOL |
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bbjai
Aug 22, 2008 12:40 PM
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regardless of who did it, and who discovered it, when it becomes mainstream it will be a massive hit. Pity it looks like its a fair way off from being produced in mass production. |
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M9ROC
Aug 22, 2008 2:24 PM
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I'm still concerned over the radiation effects etc of the thing. If something can charge something like a laptop or phone wirelessly what else is it charging? Your insides perhaps? Will we see signs in places with the coils with: Warning, if you suffer from positively charged subatomic particles and suffer from a bad heart/wearing a pace-maker DO NOT ENTER. |
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Pacman
Aug 22, 2008 2:31 PM
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Will, you should definitely grab some of those coils and try and transport yourself back to Australia, like a magic trick from the film the Prestige. |
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Pacman
Aug 22, 2008 2:33 PM
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By the way, if this could work; could you imagine the new cities that could be powered in the remotest parts of the planet? Las Vegas type cities in the Amazon jungles, Tokyo sized cities in the Siberian tundra. |
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bbjai
Aug 22, 2008 2:52 PM
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Pacman wrote:Will, you should definitely grab some of those coils and try and transport yourself back to Australia, like a magic trick from the film the Prestige.
thats acutally the first thing i thought when I read the article, the Prestige.
Funny enough that movie wasn't all that bad.
Oh and on radiation effects if you were so scared you should stop using phones too :D |
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William Maher
Aug 22, 2008 4:15 PM
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it was more what I saw that had me worried - visible lightning/arcing. |
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bbjai
Aug 22, 2008 5:25 PM
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lols
so instead of beware of wires below and tripping it should be now:
Beware Laptop charging, may have stray electricity |
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Nat.W¿LL¿
Aug 22, 2008 5:31 PM
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lol fail |
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William Maher
Aug 22, 2008 5:46 PM
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bbjai wrote:lols
so instead of beware of wires below and tripping it should be now:
Beware Laptop charging, may have stray electricity
The lightning/arcing was from a completely separate demo by a hobbyist with Tesla coil. It had nothing to do with the Intel demo you see in the story. |
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bbjai
Aug 22, 2008 5:54 PM
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were you able to discern what the Tesla Coil guy was demonstrating? |
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RcCypher
Aug 23, 2008 12:45 AM
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Anyone ever heard of Nicola Tesla ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla ) He would be rolling over in his grave right now. He could do this over 100 years ago, and here we are still tinkering with this and all we get is a lousy couple of feet, he could transmit power over LONG distances. Go figure.... Intel, you get 0 points for creativity and just 2 or 3 for managing to use all our modern technology to scale down the apparatus.
Cypher |
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RcCypher
Aug 23, 2008 12:48 AM
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I suppose I should add several points for increasing efficiency, but I'm an a$$hole, and think they should have 99% efficiency by now, so forget that. |
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.:Cyb3rGlitch:.
Aug 23, 2008 1:05 PM
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RcCypher wrote:I suppose I should add several points for increasing efficiency, but I'm an a$$hole, and think they should have 99% efficiency by now, so forget that.
You can't increase efficiency off something that never worked, and even if it did work, he was trying to transfer power over the ionosphere which is vastly different. |
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andyxia
Aug 25, 2008 11:45 AM
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I like it. Where and when can i get one. |
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pallen
Aug 25, 2008 12:28 PM
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I wonder how carefully they have looked at power efficiency? I also hope they put up signs to warn off folk with pacemakers! Or maybe it will give them a boost! |
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bbjai
Aug 25, 2008 12:35 PM
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Its still a long way off, I think wireless speakers and non electrical things are more likely to happen first. Home theater system without any wires or your home setup without wires. Thats where we are heading., |
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M9ROC
Aug 25, 2008 3:28 PM
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Can new posters to this thread please look at previous comments - Tesla and Pacemakers have already been mentioned. Get some new material!
Edited by m9roc: 25/8/2008 03:29:55 PM |
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totoaus
Aug 29, 2008 10:52 PM
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As a teenager I read a then new book called "Colonies in Space." In a sentence: it was about using satellites to collect solar power, beaming it to Earth as microwaves then feeding it into the grid for use.
This idea has now resurfaced, so having people demo small scale copies of it for PCs, is old! Only an IT company could make it "sound" new and fascinating.
Sorry, to let reality intrude into the fantasy world of today's IT zealots; but in my life the reality rules. |
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Slatts
Aug 29, 2008 11:39 PM
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Were you standing next to that thing William?:shock:
I hope your breeding days are behind you.8-[ |