Wireless Power

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk An end to spaghetti power cables Say goodbye to the tangle of cables and the wall socket and hello to powering up your electronic gizmos wirelessly. This picture of a world without wires is one long dreamed of and came a step closer following significant progress made by Intel. WREL could mean batteries being recharged within a couple of feet clipped from en.wikipedia.org WREL (technology) WREL (Wireless Resonant Energy Link) is a wireless energy transfer technology developed by Intel. Benefits With this technology enabled in a laptop, for example, batteries could be recharged when the laptop gets within several feet of the transmit resonator. History Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner demonstrated powering a light bulb without the use of a plug or wire of any kind as he spoke at the California firm's annual developers forum in San Francisco 2008-08-21. Electricity was sent wirelessly to a lamp on stage, lighting a 60 watt light bulb that uses more power than a typical laptop computer. clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.seattle.intel-research.net clipped from news.cnet.com clipped from news.cnet.com

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