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Codelike
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Posted: 15th Nov 2006 20:41
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6129460.stm

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but my heap of gadgetry will surely deserve this!

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David R
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Posted: 15th Nov 2006 20:53
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Surely the method in which it could work could affect something or someone though? I mean:

Quote: "People/other objects not affected as not resonating at 6.4Mhz"


isn't terribly useful, since although an entire person doesn't resonate at this frequency, something inside your body for instance, may well do (or anything else for that matter)

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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 15th Nov 2006 20:55
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thats pretty sweet, I would have liked to see a working model though. Theory and Practice are two very different things.
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Benjamin
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Posted: 15th Nov 2006 22:32
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I have a patent on wireless wires.

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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 15th Nov 2006 22:38
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I had a wireless mouse and keyboard once. Guess what happened to them? They ended up in a box under my bed the day after I got them. The reason? Because they kept on lagging and pissed me off too many times when I tried doing basic jobs on my desktop.

So Iam guessing if your going to use wireless power to boot your pc up, the connection between the power socket and the pc could be lost, casuing you to smash the wireless plug to bits in anger.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 15th Nov 2006 22:39
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Quote: "Because they kept on lagging and pissed me off too many times when I tried doing basic jobs on my desktop."

Exactly why I don't like wireless devices.

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David R
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There is one extremely interesting possibility with this technology though, which I initially didn't realise; If you can wirelessly beam electricity to anywhere with a receiver (over a long range) doesn't that mean you could beam electricity from solar panels in space down to earth?

That's where I reckon this technology will head if gets of the ground, which would be very cool

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Posted: 15th Nov 2006 22:50
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Yeah ... except you might find the range of 3 to 5 metres a little bit limiting

The point is that this is a short-range method that doesn't lose energy like a standard transmitter would - it somehow keeps the energy in a field near the transmitter until it is intercepted by a device that resonates at the correct frequency and absorbs it.

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Fallout
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Dudages, don't buy cheap crappy wireless devices then. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse and they rock more than stonehenge. I spit on your technological back-turning. Pttuuurrr pturrrr!!!


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Posted: 15th Nov 2006 23:11 Edited at: 15th Nov 2006 23:13
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Read up on Tesla, he did this back in his day.

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/9654/tesla/projecttesla.html



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BatVink
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Posted: 15th Nov 2006 23:52
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Quote: "Although the team has not built and tested a system, computer models and mathematics suggest it will work."


You wouldn't believe how many ideas I haven't tested but work just fine in my head. Many of them involve women who find me irrestible.

In fact I think the term for people with untested ideas but they are sure they'll work is "Nutters!!!"



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Kenjar
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Posted: 16th Nov 2006 01:23
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Quote: "Exactly why I don't like wireless devices."


I couldn't live without my wireless mouse and keyboard!

Quote: "Dudages, don't buy cheap crappy wireless devices then. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse and they rock more than stonehenge. I spit on your technological back-turning. Pttuuurrr pturrrr!!! "


Nods in agreement.

Quote: "So Iam guessing if your going to use wireless power to boot your pc up, the connection between the power socket and the pc could be lost, casuing you to smash the wireless plug to bits in anger."


I doubt it, the reason for lost connections is that the data contained within it was interfered with by another radio source or atmosphereic distubance. All these people are doing is transmitting a single frequency, I suspect if the frequency was changed breifly it would make little or no difference.

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Codelike
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Posted: 16th Nov 2006 01:33 Edited at: 16th Nov 2006 01:43
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Quote: "Surely the method in which it could work could affect something or someone though?"


2.4ghz on a Wifi connection isn't much different. This'd depend on the power & frequency of the signal, at any constant point, as to whether it'd cook anyone's innards or shake them to bits. Which, apparently, it wouldn't at that frequency.

Note: 5) Energy not transferred to laptop re-absorbed by source antenna. People/other objects not affected as not resonating at 6.4Mhz.

Quote: "You wouldn't believe how many ideas I haven't tested but work just fine in my head."


Wireless power is already halfway there, though - see the 'Splashpower' device. The MIT plan is, essentially, to upgrade the technology to a 3D field rather than a semi-connected 2D surface. Think of it as like putting a microphone near a speaker, but with electrical rather than sound energy.

Quote: "You could also scale it down to the microscopic or nanoscopic world."


@David R: Forget about scaling it up, how about computer chips & motherboards without PCBs & other electrical conduits? No resistance, either.

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