Wireless Power and the Touch Tablet
I have heard recently that commercial products using wireless power tranmsmission were very close to coming out on the market. I think a mac tablet would be a killer application because unlike a laptop, which is designed for setting on your lap or on a desk or table top, a tablet is meant to be held and drawn on and manipulated. Light weight would be very very valuable for this type of device.
What I imagine to solve this problem is to separate the battery and tablet.. so you would have the absolute bare bones needed to run the tablet on the tablet itself. Then in a removable case you have the battery which transmits the power. Because let's face it. are you going to be carrying something as expensive, beautiful and delicate as a 10" iPhone around without a case? So if you are going to have a case.. why not separate the battery to allow you to handle the tablet much much more easily? (The stand could also be integrated on the removable case rather than having it on the device which would also lighten it and make it sleeker.)
Then when you take the tablet to your car you could set it in/plug it in to a holder and it wouldn't need the battery there either.
And when you were at home around the house and have wireless power being transmitted you also wouldn't need an on-board battery on the tablet there either.
Anyway.. I am going to try to look around on the net and see how far away wireless power might be. I'd love some help scouring the net if anyone is interested.
What I imagine to solve this problem is to separate the battery and tablet.. so you would have the absolute bare bones needed to run the tablet on the tablet itself. Then in a removable case you have the battery which transmits the power. Because let's face it. are you going to be carrying something as expensive, beautiful and delicate as a 10" iPhone around without a case? So if you are going to have a case.. why not separate the battery to allow you to handle the tablet much much more easily? (The stand could also be integrated on the removable case rather than having it on the device which would also lighten it and make it sleeker.)
Then when you take the tablet to your car you could set it in/plug it in to a holder and it wouldn't need the battery there either.
And when you were at home around the house and have wireless power being transmitted you also wouldn't need an on-board battery on the tablet there either.
Anyway.. I am going to try to look around on the net and see how far away wireless power might be. I'd love some help scouring the net if anyone is interested.
Comments
This is a couple years old..
MIT unveils wireless-power device
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech...9287474,00.htm
Cutting the Cord: Wireless Charging For Electronic Devices on the Way
Posted by J. Scott Orr September 15, 2008 3:53PM
http://blog.nj.com/digitallife/industry_news/
Wireless power system could be just a year away
http://dvice.com/archives/2009/07/wireless-power.php
This is the company formed from the MIT work I belive..
http://www.witricity.com/
People often ask Giler, "But how small can you make this system?" Taking the example of a cell phone battery running out of charge, he takes a G1 phone and holds it near the transmitting coil -- and the phone turns on automatically. He then does the same with an iPhone -- and, sure enough, the green "battery charging" symbol appears on the screen.
http://blog.ted.com/2009/07/eric_giler_at_t.php
Wireless power electrifies CES
http://www.witricity.com/pdfs/4.0_news_forbes.pdf
Video of a laptop running without a battery
http://www.boston.com/business/artic...a_bad_economy/
With this concept you could redesign laptops so that ALL laptops are actually tablet PCs. The way laptops are built now all the PC parts are in the base. But with this wireless power system you would design laptops in such a way that all the computing power is behind the monitor. Then you could remove all the monitors from your laptop and use all of them as tablets...
The only thing in the base would be the battery and keyboard. The same basic design I explained above for the tablet and it's case.
I think this is where laptop designs will go if this wireless power is for real.. and it appears it is for real.
air electric shocks after a fresh shower .. no ?
No...