My dream’s come (true)
Some shocking news about wireless electricity
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers said Thursday they have developed a wireless energy transfer technology that could ensure wireless devices are always charged up and ready to go.
The team at MIT, one of the top US academic “laboratories” for new inventions, has roadtested the fledgling technology and shown that it can power a 60 watt bulb from a power source two meters away.
That’s more than enough juice to supply an average laptop, said Marin Soljacic, a professor of physics at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who has been working on this project for several years.
The researchers, having proved that the technology dubbed “WiTricity” does work, plan to refine it to make it more efficient, although the range over which wireless power can be delivered probably won’t extend beyond a room or a factory floor.
Well, techno-wise, my dream is really not having to worry about power supply of my mobile, iPod and laptop and that they could be charged anywhere anytime with no strings attached.
Now, although the researchers does not believe that it could be extended beyond a factory floor now, who knows how far they’d achieve in another 10 years? I doubt anyone would have thought that you could charge your laptop wirelessly 10 years ago.
I will continue to cross my fingers for WiTricity to become as sophisticated as Wifi nowadays :-)