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Disney Makes Nikola Tesla’s Wireless Power Dreams Come True

Nicholas Say — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 19:57:08 +0000

It looks like the Disney company has made Nikola Tesla‘s dream of wireless power transmission a reality. At least on a small scale. Disney Research has announced that they have constructed a room that will allow small electronic devices to be powered wirelessly. In the same way that your smartphone uses wifi, this technology gives […]

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Korean Wireless Power System Could Mean Faster Bullet Trains

Benji Jerew — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:34:12 +0000

When trains were getting faster than their coal-driven ancestors, train engineers turned to diesel fuel, and for a while, this was pretty good, especially with the addition of aerodynamic design and suspension design. Eventually, though, instead of driving the wheels directly, electric motors were installed, which offered much more torque and speed. The diesel engines […]

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Japanese Researchers Extend Range and Efficiency of Wireless Power Transmission

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:22:34 +0000

Since researchers from the MIT first announced that they had a working prototype of a wireless power supply in 2007, Japanese companies (and not only) sought to replicate and even surpass MIT's results.

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OLEV: The First Wirelessly-Powered EV Made in South Korea

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:42:46 +0000

The world's first commercial wireless EV has been introduced on Tuesday in South Korea at a theme park in Seoul. It's called the "On-Line Electric Vehicle" (OLEV), and it gets its energy from cables underneath the surface of the road. The car doesn't make any contact with the road, all the energy is transferred by magnetic induction.

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Haier's Wirelessly-Powered TV Demonstrates WiTricity Technology On Higher Powers

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:36:40 +0000

Haier, a Chinese home electronics producer, has demonstrated WiTricity's wireless power technology at CES 2010 by powering a TV set with no strings attached.

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WiTricity To Be Used In First Wirelessly Powered Devices by Next Christmas

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:07:15 +0000

WiTricity Corp is seemingly following Tesla's work in wireless power transmission. Their "WiTricity" technology is nowadays capable of wirelessly transferring power by using magnetic resonance over several meters.

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Tesla's Wireless Power Transmission Reinvented by Witricity

Mike Sandru — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:45:33 +0000

Eric Giler, chief executive of US firm Witricitywireless, talks about a new system that can deliver power to devices without the need for wires. The new system exploits simple physics principles and can be used to charge a range of electronic devices over several meters.

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