Sobering news for the global wire and cable manufacturing industry came from US-based firm WiTricity. The company demonstrated a system that delivers electricity through the air.
The technology, which transmits energy via electromagnetic waves, "could allow millions of homes and offices to dispense with power cords and disposable batteries," the Times reported.
The company claims "cell phones, game controllers, laptop computers, mobile robots, even electric vehicles" will be capable of re-charging themselves without ever being plugged in.
The system was displayed at the TED Global conference in Oxford. It is based on the work of an MIT physicist who was driven to innovate because he was annoyed by the low-power beep of his mobile phone.
A company exec stressed the wireless electricity transmission was safe because the energy was transferred through magnetic fields. "Humans and the vast majority of objects around us are non-magnetic in nature," he said.
The technology, which transmits energy via electromagnetic waves, "could allow millions of homes and offices to dispense with power cords and disposable batteries," the Times reported.
The company claims "cell phones, game controllers, laptop computers, mobile robots, even electric vehicles" will be capable of re-charging themselves without ever being plugged in.
The system was displayed at the TED Global conference in Oxford. It is based on the work of an MIT physicist who was driven to innovate because he was annoyed by the low-power beep of his mobile phone.
A company exec stressed the wireless electricity transmission was safe because the energy was transferred through magnetic fields. "Humans and the vast majority of objects around us are non-magnetic in nature," he said.
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