Over the past few years, we've seen devices, such as charging pads, pop up in stores. These pads can charge your phone without wires, simply by placing it on the pad. Would it be possible to power everything in your house without wires? Trace explains how a technology similar to WiFi could soon power your house.
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Wireless Electricity? It's Here
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/14/tech/innovation/wireless-electricity/index.html
"Katie Hall was shocked the second she saw it: a light-bulb glowing in the middle of a room with no wires attached."
WiTricity
http://www.witricity.com/
"Cell phones, game controllers, laptop computers, mobile robots, even electric vehicles capable of re-charging themselves without ever being plugged in."
WiTricity Wants To Pull Plug On Charging Technology
http://wgbhnews.org/post/witricity-wants-pull-plug-charging-technology
"We live in a society of wires, cords and cables."
WiTricity Technology: The Basics
http://www.witricity.com/pages/technology.html
"Understanding what WiTricity technology is-transferring electric energy or power over distance without wires-is quite simple."
MIT team experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer, potentially useful for powering laptops, cell phones without cords
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/wireless-0607.html
"Imagine a future in which wireless power transfer is feasible: cell phones, household robots, mp3 players, laptop computers and other portable electronics capable of charging themselves without ever being plugged in, freeing us from that final, ubiquitous power wire."
Wireless Power Transfer
http://www.mit.edu/~soljacic/wireless_power.html
"In last few years, our society experienced a silent, but quite dramatic,
revolution in terms of the number of autonomous electronic devices
(e.g. laptops, palm pilots, digital cameras, household robots, etc.)
that we use in our everyday lives."
Tesla's Tower of Power
http://www.damninteresting.com/teslas-tower-of-power/
"In 1905, a team of construction workers in the small village of Shoreham, New York labored to erect a truly extraordinary structure."
Welcome to the Tesla Memorial Society of New York Website
http://www.teslasociety.com/tesla_tower.htm
Patent: Resonator arrays for wireless energy transfer
http://www.google.com/patents/US8598743
Video: A demo of wireless electricity
http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_giler_demos_wireless_electricity
How Wireless Power Works
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/everyday-tech/wireless-power.htm
"Unless you are particularly organized and good with tie wrap, you probably have a few dusty power cord tangles around your home."
WiTricity: Wireless Power Transfer
http://scholarworks.csun.edu/bitstream/handle/10211.2/3230/PranitYeole_GradProject.pdf?sequence=1
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