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Agreement nears on wireless charging for mobiles
THE WIRELESS POWER industry is closer to powering mobile gadgets wirelessly.
The Wireless Power Consortium has released version 0.95 of its specification for delivering wireless power to things like mobile phones and music players.
Members like Duracell, Samsung and Texas Instruments are all hoping to benefit from this technology. Since banding together some seven months ago they're now at the late stages of testing and heading towards version 1.0 of the standard.
The consortium's initial aim for delivering power wirelessly is rather small at only five watts. This is enough to run a mobile phone or an MP3 player, but the group hopes to support higher power in time.
The specification's logo "Qi" is the Chinese word 'Chi' meaning "vital energy". The logo will appear on products that are capable of being powered wirelessly.
No doubt some of you are reaching for your tin foil hats even as you read this. We know we have ours on. µ
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..better late than never I guess.
Nikola Tesla anyone? he only managed to transfer like a million watts 100 years ago ...all alone.
mega corps manage a measly 5watts? pfff... Tesla why did the bastards get you down?
...well JP Morgan couldn't make money on free!
Agree with above fellow wrt Tesla and profit.
Thanks for explaining the logo - I never would have guessed.
They really should have just used the *Chinese character* for qi, not an abstraction based on latin letters.