TED Tuesday: Wireless electricity

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.
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  1. December 31, 2009

    What is stoping this technology from being used to derive energy from the Earth's own magnetic feild?

  2. December 31, 2009

    I don't think anything or anyone is stopping it. Some ideas in science are too advanced for its time. And so was Nicola Telsa's many. I think this idea is just coming of age with people actually understanding the interactions between various forces at play. Lets hope in next few decades it will be put into practicle use.

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