i wish the iPod could charge like this...
have any of you ever seen or used the sonicare toothbrush?
i have one and i was thinking how awesome it would be for the iPod to charge/get data through no metal connectors
i guess because of speed and radiation (specially around electronics) wouldn't be good but i still am sayin it would be cool
i have one and i was thinking how awesome it would be for the iPod to charge/get data through no metal connectors
i guess because of speed and radiation (specially around electronics) wouldn't be good but i still am sayin it would be cool
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Originally posted by ast3r3x
i have one nad
I'm sorry to hear that.
(nice post, BRussell)
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Originally posted by fred_lj
I think the whole thing with the sonicare (and I have one ----- of the sonicare toothbrushes) is that it charges via a magnetic field of some kind I believe. It's awesome for the bathroom environment, but would have natural "disadvantages" with the iPod unless solid state storage became really cheap and massive.
I happen to know the designer of the sonicare and that is infact how it works. one side sends a magnetic pules and the other side picks it up and makes it electricity. This MIGHT be able to work with date like 1 pulse=0, 2 pulses=1 kinda thing. I bet it would be slow though. This would rule though. LONG LIVE THE SONICARE!
Originally posted by Michaelm8000
I happen to know the designer of the sonicare and that is infact how it works. one side sends a magnetic pules and the other side picks it up and makes it electricity. This MIGHT be able to work with date like 1 pulse=0, 2 pulses=1 kinda thing. I bet it would be slow though. This would rule though. LONG LIVE THE SONICARE!
The newer kinds of artificial partial-hearts work the same way. Having no wires running through the skin makes the risk of infection a lot lower and is probably a heck of a lot more comfortable. You wear a battery pack on your waist, with a wire that runs to a coil taped on to your skin. A second coil is implanted just inside your skin with a wire to the pump. Magnetic induction transfers the power across the skin, no contacts needed. Pretty darn cool.
The second one used no contacts, it was just a plactic pad. They set a laptop on it and started using it. I guess it doesn't harm the HDD.
So the take home message is that a magnetic field can induce an electric field into a wire, which incidentally produces some electric potential.
The drawbacks here are that adding the circuitry to do this adds cost, and there's always the risk of magnetically interfering with the iPod circuitry. In order to recharge quickly, some serious magnetic fields would be needed. That's a bad thing.
Originally posted by BRussell
I'm sorry to hear that.
*sigh*...how do you respond to something like that
Originally posted by murbot
Another quality thread by ast3r3x. Keep up the good work.
(nice post, BRussell)
COME ON...there is nothing wrong with this thread, and (correct spelling not 'nad') now I and others have read how sonicare works (can somone post after this pretending they cared too?)
ok looking back the cannibal thread was a bad idea but the rest of my threads rn't THAT bad
Originally posted by ast3r3x
-double post-
you would double post.
Originally posted by O and A
you would double post.
haha everyone hates me on these boards now
Originally posted by Eugene
My toothbrush is manually driven.
as is mine
i dont use the sonicare often
Originally posted by BRussell
I'm sorry to hear that.
Probably the best post I've ever seen, anyway.
Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah
Probably the best post I've ever seen, anyway.
psh you WOULD think that