GigaWire - More Info
Many of you have likely heard about GigaWire but, like myself, wondered exactly what that might be.
I saw this article at OSOpinion with some good and fairly substantiated info about GigaWire.
<a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/15463.html"; target="_blank">www.osopinion.com/perl/story/15463.html</a>
I'm curious to hear what people think about this and how it might possibly be used?
I saw this article at OSOpinion with some good and fairly substantiated info about GigaWire.
<a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/15463.html"; target="_blank">www.osopinion.com/perl/story/15463.html</a>
I'm curious to hear what people think about this and how it might possibly be used?
Comments
I see no problems with walking between the two devices though. A friend of mine has a TiPB and an AirPort base station and I walk between the two without a problem all the time. Well, not all the time, but have done it numerous times.
Bus powered though? I don't know. Being able to 'beam electricity power' through the air would indeed be quite innovative.
<strong>Can't do bus power with wireless, can you? Walk between the two devices and *BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT*</strong><hr></blockquote>
iCancer. Not a product I'm looking forward to.
<strong>Being able to 'beam electricity power' through the air would indeed be quite innovative.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Ummm not exactly... (I happen to be a big Nikola Tesla fan) Nikola Tesla inventor of the Radio (they told you it was Marconi... they were wrong) the ability to distribute of AC Current via his AC induction motor (they told you it was Edison... they were wrong, Edison was still trying to use DC) and a ton of other cool things INCLUDING wireless power transmision!
This man was in a word AMAZING... It's too bad he never got the respect he deserved.
[quote]Tesla moved to the United States in 1884, where he worked for Thomas Edison who quickly became a rival Edison being an advocate of the inferior DC power transmission system. During this time, Tesla was commissioned with the design of the AC generators installed at Niagara Falls. George Westinghouse purchased the patents to his induction motor, and made it the basis of the Westinghouse power system which still underlies the modern electrical power industry today. He also did notable research on high-voltage electricity and wireless communication; at one point creating an earthquake which shook the ground for several miles around his New York laboratory. He also devised a system which anticipated worldwide wireless communications, fax machines, radar, radio- guided missiles and aircraft. Nikola Tesla is the true unsung prophet of the electronic age; without whom our radio, auto ignition, telephone, alternating current power generation and transmission, radio and television would all have been impossible. Yet his life and times have vanished largely from public access. This autobiography is released to remedy this situation.<hr></blockquote>
Here is a very interesting read!
<a href="http://www.apc.net/bturner/tesla.htm"; target="_blank">http://www.apc.net/bturner/tesla.htm</a>;
Dave
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<strong>Didn't he invent a time machine too?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Nope, just Warp Drive which you can use in conjunction with the sun to achive time travel.
I'm getting really excited over Gigawire. I hope it doesn't fail to dissapoint (better show up at MWSF!!) becuase Smalldog had a $49 airport card sale that I passed up on because I'm assuming I won't want it once Gigawire comes around (perhaps that's why their getting rid of their excess airport cards? Maybe they know something ...) <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
[quote]Many of you have likely heard about GigaWire but, like myself, wondered exactly what that might be.
I saw this article at OSOpinion with some good and fairly substantiated info about GigaWire.[..]
I'm curious to hear what people think about this and how it might possibly be used?<hr></blockquote>
"Wire" in Gigawire leads me to believe it has something to do with wires.
I could arguably be totally wrong (after all, Firewire does not burn), BUT I'd rather believe it was the 2nd-gen Firewire.
As Firewire 2.0 is supposed to work over glassfiber and Cat-5 Ethernet cables, it would be only straightforward to make it run over wireless as well - but only as _one_ of serveral media, the preferred still being FW cables.
Thomas Edison was the Bill Gates of his time.
Nikola Tesla was a true genius.
There are several applications of "beamed power" - NASA does it on some satellites. RF-ID badges, the ones you use to get the door to open at work. The ones I worked on had an EEPROM core that could be reprogrammed. When the card is in range, it receives a steady carrier pulse from the host interface that is used to power up the chip and spit out it's unique code string. Best range we could get was four feet. Small stuff tho, very low power. You ain't gonna run an external CDR wirelessly...
Zack
Electricity needs metals to conduct. Non-metals do not have the right molecular structure to support this. Unless you found some way to have enough metal particles"dissolved" into the air it won't work, but if you did you have have the exact same effect of stepping into a large pool of electrically charged water.
Radiation (light, microwave, radio etc - ie electromagnetic) travels through air/space relatively easily, however it seems to need to go in a straight line and cannot transfer high amounts of energy without becoming some kind of nasty death ray.
Now if we could just bend space through one of those spare 19 dimensions or so and connect two points without interrupting the space "inbetween"...