Scientists have already given a name to the innovation - 'WiTricity' as abbreviation of 'wireless electricity'.
The idea of wireless electricity came to Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Marin Soljacic when he started thinking of charging his mobile phone without plugging it.
Soljacic and a group of scientists see the wanted result in resonance. Two objects resonating at the same frequency can successfully exchange energy, while objects that resonate at different frequencies will waste energy.
"It was quite exciting," Soljacic said. 'The process is very reproducible. We can just go to the lab and do it whenever we want."
The team of scientists also said, that most of common materials don't interact with magnetic fields, so only a very small amount of energy will be lost.
"The fact that magnetic fields interact so weakly with biological organisms is also important for safety considerations," said Soljacic's colleague, MIT physicist Andre Kurs.
The first small part of the experiment showed, that it is already possible to light a bulb. Moreover, nothing happened to the cell phone, credit card, and other devices that were in the room during the experiment.
Soljacic and the MIT team are going to turn a laptop on the next. He said, that the experiment is now on 40-45 percent efficient, and that he truly believes that wireless electricity is possible to get. Scientists just need to work on it more. And the next generation devices will hopefully working without being plugged. For HULIQ.com
Posted June 8th, 2007 by ruzik_tuzik