www.ted.com Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT’s breakthrough version, WiTricity — a near-to-market invention that may soon recharge your cell phone, car, pacemaker.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
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what I want to know is, what is the effect of this technology on devices that use magnetics to store data? Will a WiTricity transmitter that’s strong enough to transmit energy at 8 feet efficiently be strong enough to corrupt data on my hard drive? Or will the fact that it only transfers energy to devices that have the same resonance mean there won’t be an effect at all?
@grandexandi
Yes but to send information you have to use a code and send bursts of energy. The way I see this technology is needing to warm up and such. I guess what I’m saying, witricity doesn’t affect informational transfer…
Eh, maybe I just have have my thoughts screwed up. I did, after all, say that first one at like 2 in the morning where I live…
@xinlo huh? but wireless information has been a reality for quite some time now… i mean, radio, tv, phones… right now im sending this comment to youtube through my wireless internet connection
@grandexandi
Wouldn’t you still need chords for information transfer? This thing doesn’t send information, does it?
Cords under my desk? Hell no, apple macs only have 1 cord!
@grandexandi He was working on electricity sent like a radio wave, but when his backer realised he wouldn’t be able to metre the electricity used, he withdrew his financial backing for the project which was then dismantled. Then Tesla’s lab was destroyed & was ruined.
@siggyuke what happened to tesla?
@iyiyiy12345 wow you really didnt get it. you think that the only thing this technology could do for us is that we wouldnt have to plug cables anymore? omg get the big picture: no wires (not only in our houses, but in the streets, everywhere), no batteries (no environmental issues) and a much more efficient way of transfering energy. And all of that for much less work and money. You really dont see the potential of that?!
Tesla rules, Edison blows.
everyone, 50% is still better than wires you know?
Careful! Look what happened to Tesla.
1.put ur hand on ur mouth
2.wish into ur hand
3.put ur hand on ur heart for five seconds
4.put this comment on three videos
5.tomorrow you will have the best day of ur life YEAH IT WORKS
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future
i cant stop stumbling
Nikola Tesla – Serb born in the Austro-Hungarian empire.
Marin Solja?i? – Croatian born in Yugoslavia.
Both evidently had to move to USA in order to fully realize their talents.
*Yugoslavia…
only 50% efficiency was what he mentioned at first, im assuming they didnt improve much upon it. does anyone know if the “powermat” device runs using this technology?
Wireless power is used for factory automation. Look for “ABB WISA”
regards, Thomas
That is such an interesting phenomenon.
Nikola Tesla from Croatia
Marin Soljacic from Croatia
shut up pansy
wicked. so many uses i can think of it’s not even funny! lol
hell, get cordless portable heaters for homeless people
I couldn’t find out any sort of efficiency factors… is it more efficient than wires too? he was talking about efficiency for a long while at the beginning
you should look into their website, they have more information about this.
It’s as Rhinis said. The difference is in this guy’s solution being resonant technology, magnetic instead of electric and all that. It is not a small difference.