WiTricity CEO talks wireless charging; preliminary availability in 12-18 months
Woh there George Jetson… Did you take your flying car to a remote studio on Mars to record this interview? WiTricity Corp. CEO Eric Giler sat down with the BBC for a (very) quick chat about the future of power. His vision of the future is pretty intense — where you park your electric car above a mat in your garage that powers it up while you go inside and munch on some Soylent Green wafers. We need immediate gratification however, so we’re much more interested in his cell phone charging solution for the time being. Within 12-18 months, Giler suggests that consumers will be able to purchase an accessory that will enable wireless handset charging. We’re talking truly wireless, contact-less charging here; none of this Wildcharge/Touchstone nonsense. Unfortunately, Giler danced around the all-important ‘cost to the consumer’ issue a bit, but he did seem to imply that it would be a while before WiTricity technology is affordable. Early adopters who are willing to pay a premium however, could be able to open those wallets nice and wide for some WiTricity sexiness before 2010 is through. Hit the jump for the BBC’s interview.
Thanks, Will!
wow. this technology is exactly how the touchstone and my sonicare toothbrush work and yes it is a waste of power even the way they developed it at mit
This is NOT new, what is all the fuss about Nikola Tesla was doing it in 1899 over a distance of 15 miles. Until the CIA / JP Morgan put a stop to him. Look up Wardenclyffe tower which was going to be his power transmitter. Dr Karl Meyl has also demonstrated and sells a kit using 1/4 & 1/2 wavelength pancake coils and bifilar wound pancake coils to achieve the same thing. This is all about the existence of scalar waves, which is a special form of resonance. It is also used in modern weaponary. A lot of people seem to doubt they exist but they do, otherwise this would not work. Scalar wave resonance cannot be blocked. Normal resonance can
J.P Morgan is often misquoted as saying
“If we give everyone electricity for free where do we put the meter”
I have as you can probably see studied Nikola Tesla extensively
Is it me, or does this lady not have a nice ass?
Anybody say cancer?
Soylent Green “They’re human!”
Well to get a wavelengh for these to work of approx 33 feet then the frequency would be about 10MHz, give or take. Is that going to annoy an awful lot of radio amateurs, unless they are actally using the scalar point of resonance, which theoretcally should not interfere with normal communications on 10MHz
We already have enough problems with the mains electrical wireless data transmission devices
(Homeplugs) which use the 6m waveband.
Shortwave is getting awfully crowded thse days
John W.
G7HMJ
IT’S PEOPLE!!! PEOPLE!!
Nice reference!
Tesla was full of AWESOME-NESS! Damn that lousy Edison!