Weird Technology
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I wonder if this is a radiation safe technology. They had it at ces and basically you just stick your device on top of it without a plug and it charges it. http://www.powermatusa.com/[^] :confused:
KISS "Keep It Simple, Stupid"
My toothbrush has been charging like this for the last 10 years. You place the brush-part on top of the charger -- no plug, no electrical connection -- and it just charges. There's no "radiation" involved (as in radioactive); just magnetic induction, the same way anything that plugs into a transformer (wall brick) works.
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I wonder if this is a radiation safe technology. They had it at ces and basically you just stick your device on top of it without a plug and it charges it. http://www.powermatusa.com/[^] :confused:
KISS "Keep It Simple, Stupid"
I saw a show on TV the other day about VWs Phaeton car facility. They have a mini assembly line where people can come and watch their car being built. The center of the floor was a big rotating disc where the engineers roll these toolboxes around that had a computer and several electric power wrenches which they used to assemble the car. Everything on the toolbox was powered by induction from the rotating floor.
Todd Smith
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I wonder if this is a radiation safe technology. They had it at ces and basically you just stick your device on top of it without a plug and it charges it. http://www.powermatusa.com/[^] :confused:
KISS "Keep It Simple, Stupid"
Is it just me or is that no less work than using wall sockets? I mean, you need a dock or a "disk" for most devices so far, and the mat only gives you so much room... Also if you're limited on desk space, you might only want to be charging your iPhone in front of you while you want everything else on the floor/by your bed/whatever. With this you can't do that, unless you have more than one mat, which defeats the purpose. I'm more interested in the induction technology that powers devices anywhere within a certain range, not just on a mat. This technology seems too transitional to be practical.
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I wonder if this is a radiation safe technology. They had it at ces and basically you just stick your device on top of it without a plug and it charges it. http://www.powermatusa.com/[^] :confused:
KISS "Keep It Simple, Stupid"
I feel a Douglas Adams quote coming on - "Oh no, not again". I've lost count of the number of times I've seen this technology demonstrated or discussed, usually by a startup you never here from again. I think I first read about it in New Scientist about 5 years ago but I'm sure it's been around a while. It's one of those brilliant ideas that won't get off the ground until one of the major industry players does it and the others want to get in on the act. Until then we have to keep suffering from cable hell.
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Didn't remember that one (it was 20+ years ago!) - the only equation I could remember was photon energy, E=hν (that's a Greek small letter nu).
Get 'ν' with
ν :rolleyes:-- Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time - Bertrand Russel
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Get 'ν' with
ν :rolleyes:-- Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time - Bertrand Russel
Or use a font which differentiates between lower-case v and nu - if you look at the page source (which for me is in Courier, not Arial or whatever the CP display font is), you'll see that is a nu.
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Or use a font which differentiates between lower-case v and nu - if you look at the page source (which for me is in Courier, not Arial or whatever the CP display font is), you'll see that is a nu.
Ah, sorry, thought you intentionally used a 'v' instead of a 'ν' because it was faster. :-D
-- Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time - Bertrand Russel
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I wonder if this is a radiation safe technology. They had it at ces and basically you just stick your device on top of it without a plug and it charges it. http://www.powermatusa.com/[^] :confused:
KISS "Keep It Simple, Stupid"
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When I was at school (a number of years decades ago) we were shown how it was possible to light a stip light just by being near overhead power lines!
Remember, nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humour!
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I wonder if this is a radiation safe technology. They had it at ces and basically you just stick your device on top of it without a plug and it charges it. http://www.powermatusa.com/[^] :confused:
KISS "Keep It Simple, Stupid"
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Ah, sorry, thought you intentionally used a 'v' instead of a 'ν' because it was faster. :-D
-- Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time - Bertrand Russel
Nah - looked up the right character in OS X's equivalent of character map. Should strictly have made it an entity I suppose, but as it happened, it made no difference because of the font CP uses :rolleyes: I did debate using f rather than nu, as they both represent frequency...but E = h{nu} is the common representation.
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F = qv x B :omg:
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Or its derivative F = Bil x cos{teta} to calculate the force exerted on a wire of length l, under a magnetic field B, in which a current of i is circulating. {teta} is the angle between the wire and the magnetic field. Mmmpf... that was in Physics classes nearly 30 years ago. But I don't think either of these formulas apply, as we are not interested in forces, but in inducted current. I would thought the technology is based on a simple transformer: two coils in parallel; one in the matt, the other in the little white thingy. I wonder what the efficiency of the device is, since the dielectric medium is air. Very low I guess...
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I wonder if this is a radiation safe technology. They had it at ces and basically you just stick your device on top of it without a plug and it charges it. http://www.powermatusa.com/[^] :confused:
KISS "Keep It Simple, Stupid"
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It's not that power adapters are so cheap, but the after-market value is so huge to the companies that make them. The mark-up on the peripherals (phone charger/work charger/synch cable, etc) is where many of these companies make the most profit.
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I wonder if this is a radiation safe technology. They had it at ces and basically you just stick your device on top of it without a plug and it charges it. http://www.powermatusa.com/[^] :confused:
KISS "Keep It Simple, Stupid"
They laughed at Tesla when he suggested it. Can't wait until they build the wireless electricity broadcast towers :)
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I wonder if this is a radiation safe technology. They had it at ces and basically you just stick your device on top of it without a plug and it charges it. http://www.powermatusa.com/[^] :confused:
KISS "Keep It Simple, Stupid"
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Is it just me or is that no less work than using wall sockets? I mean, you need a dock or a "disk" for most devices so far, and the mat only gives you so much room... Also if you're limited on desk space, you might only want to be charging your iPhone in front of you while you want everything else on the floor/by your bed/whatever. With this you can't do that, unless you have more than one mat, which defeats the purpose. I'm more interested in the induction technology that powers devices anywhere within a certain range, not just on a mat. This technology seems too transitional to be practical.
Well, if you have any magnetic storage media in range of the charger, it would tend to be "written" by the charging field in the scenario you suggest, causing errors to accumulate that might eventually (perhaps sooner than later) make that media useless until its erased and reformatted.
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It's not that power adapters are so cheap, but the after-market value is so huge to the companies that make them. The mark-up on the peripherals (phone charger/work charger/synch cable, etc) is where many of these companies make the most profit.
LOL like the original Gillete safety razor...they gave away the razors, and got rich selling razor blades.
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When I was at school (a number of years decades ago) we were shown how it was possible to light a stip light just by being near overhead power lines!
Remember, nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humour!
I used to have transmission lines crackling behind my house in '83. I could carry a 4 foot fluorescent bulb out there and it would light up. Not fully bright, mind you. My old computer monitors would gently throb all over the house as well. Good thing it was a rental, huh? It is amazing how many people don't believe it when you tell them these stories. Chris
Do we weigh less at high tide?
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When I was at school (a number of years decades ago) we were shown how it was possible to light a stip light just by being near overhead power lines!
Remember, nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humour!
Interestingly enough, USB is becoming something of a standard among devices. I see it on most phones these days, as well as MP3 players. It would be interesting to see it branch out to things not involved in computing. Seems like it would be a lot cheaper to develop around than building a proprietary charging interface.