I Knew This Would Happen

I’ve been waiting for this one for a long time. Of course, the usual suspects will claim it causes cancer and who know what else, which they do for any technology. Let’s hope they get over ruled.

Scientists have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead.

In a breakthrough that sounds like something out of Star Trek, they have discovered a way of ‘beaming’ power across a room into a light bulb, mobile phone or laptop computer without wires or cables.

In the first successful trial of its kind, the team was able to illuminate a 60-watt light bulb 7ft away.

The team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who call their invention ‘WiTricity’, believe it could change the way we use electricity and do away with the tangle of cables, plugs and chargers that clutter modern homes.

It could also allow the use of laptops and mobile phones without batteries.

Somewhere, Tesla is smiling.

Posted by  on  06/08  at  11:57 AM

Didn’t he have a wireless energy system? I seem to recall he could broadcast power somehow.

Posted by James Hudnall  on  06/08  at  03:17 PM

It’s an open question as to whether of not he made it work.  But he had the original idea.

Posted by  on  06/09  at  12:20 AM
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