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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday December 28 2017, @02:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the i-have-the-power! dept.

FCC approves first wireless 'power-at-a-distance' charging system

Charging your mobile device wirelessly is certainly less of a hassle than plugging it in, but still requires the device be in physical contact with its station to actually work. That's about to change now that the Federal Communications Commission has approved the first wireless charger that works from up to three feet away.

San Jose-based startup, Energous, announced on Tuesday that it has received the first such FCC certification for power-at-a-distance wireless charging with its WattUp Mid Field transmitter. The transmitter converts electricity into radio frequencies, then beams the energy to nearby devices outfitted with a corresponding receiver. This differs from the resonant induction method that the Pi wireless charging system relies upon and offers a greater range than the Belkin and Mophie chargers that require physical contact with the device.

Also at Ubergizmo.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @07:47AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @07:47AM (#615023)

    I'm reminded of James Randi's challenges.
    For instance, he offered cash to anyone who could find water by "dowsing". [google.com]
    (Nobody got the prize.)

    There was also the case of the new RF installation where the local folks bitched about the radiation (and the thing hadn't been powered up yet.)

    There's also the place in West Virginia where transmitters aren't allowed.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday December 28 2017, @12:55PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday December 28 2017, @12:55PM (#615086) Journal
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @04:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @04:00PM (#615140)

    James Randi is pretty much an asshole and nobody with any actual skills is going to bother with him.

    Skeptics are the only people more annoying and generally less useful than the true believers they try to debunk.

    The sad thing is, that they don't realize that their attempts to dismiss things that can't be proven are often times just as ludicrous as the explanations themselves.