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Old 12-06-2009, 01:04 PM
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Thumbs up Wireless electricity demo: Eric Giler on TED.com
Guys this is a must watch, little slow at first but trust me this is an amazing bit of tech.

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la times article on the company planning to put this into production -> Massachusetts company plans to market wireless electricity system - Los Angeles Times
 
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Old 12-06-2009, 01:46 PM
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I've always wondered about this. Great post DJ and hopefully this will go into production soon.

Would love just driving one of these into the garage, and it just charges itself.

 
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Nikola Tesla was working on something like this until GP Morgan killed it, apparently it wasn't equipped with a meter.

TED FTW.
 
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Amazing video!
 
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Glad I wasn't the only tech geek at times here
 
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I read about this first a few years ago. After watching this, consumer-level applications seem not too far off.
 
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TED talks rock! I got them as podcasts. I really hope that witricity kicks off! Life with electronics would be so much smoother and cleaner without cords
 
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In the end they just increased the distance frominduction charging as we already have for tooth brush, cell phones etc. I just saw a dcoumentary where they send electricity with mrico waves 60 miles. 60 miles is the distance it would need to travel if we had solar power plant satelittes orbiting the earth and were sending the energy back to earth.
 
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We have this company here in Finland called Powerkiss (POWERKISS You Are The Future)
Our first product is now ready and was launched in Helsinki Airport Dec 4th!
So I am pretty familiar with this technology.
 
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