Wireless energy a reality

[LARF]

Now this is awesome.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8165928.stm

real sci-fi! Imagine a whole world without cables!

[Matt Timson]

Didn't Tesla do this a bazillion years ago?

[Matt Timson]

Which is, of course, exactly what it says further down...   

[LARF]

Yes he did, it says it further down in the article.

Stop drawing and being so fucking brilliant and mr vampire all the time and take time out to read things properly, sometimes you can give artists a bad name, writers already think were ulliterate.

[Tweak72]

that is coooooool

[TordelBack]

How much fun is the Daily Mail going to have with that one.  The mind boggles how many different kinds of cancer  could be caused and/or cured by wireless electricity.

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

It'd be like that Simpsons episode where Moleman is hit by a laser ("My cataracts! I'm cured!") then another ("Oh well")

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Wireless energy would have confused my dear departed gran no end. She's have thought it meant her radio worked without batteries.

[Dark Jimbo]

It'd be like that Simpsons episode where Moleman is hit by a laser ("My cataracts! I'm cured!") then another ("Oh well")

Think you'll find that was Jasper, actually.</pedant> 

As to the story - luddite as I am, this confuses me. Surely we already have wireless technology? It's how I'm able to use my laptop in the garden, isn't it?

[House of Usher]

Wireless energy would have confused my dear departed gran no end. She's have thought it meant her radio worked without batteries.

You mean it doesn't mean that??

[Proudhuff]

 From the article:

"In the very early days of electricity before the electric grid was deployed [they] were very interested in developing a scheme to transmit electricity wirelessly over long distances," explained Professor Soljacic.
"They couldn't imagine dragging this vast infrastructure of metallic wires across every continent."

Tesla even went so far as to build a 29m-high aerial known as Wardenclyffe Tower in New York.

This is the future we were promised! now I just to fit one to my flying car...

[JOE SOAP]

Don't worry, sooner or later someone will apply it to their penis.

[JOE SOAP]

Wireless energy would have confused my dear departed gran no end. She's have thought it meant her radio worked without batteries.

I thought that was the point.