The anger had been at any time with a digital camera, a wireless phone and an MP3 player is verreist: Each device requires its own power supply, many are faced with similar, but no power adapter fits one manufacturer to another device. So it is with a bag full of cable spaghetti on the road. And some cable in which one has forgotten Kuddelmuddel guaranteed.
At the CES show high-tech companies to show two solutions to this problem: cable away. Replace a bearing surface, in combination with small, at best, in the devices, the worst in a protective built Solenoids.
Aufladefläche instead of cable spaghetti
That sounds complicated, does the self-experiment with the prototypes of the manufacturer Powermat and Fulton Innovation at the fair but easy: It puts the BlackBerry, the iPhone or cordless screwdriver on the pallet, the magnetic attraction know the way in the right position and immediately invite the battery. No cables, no distribution outlets? a Aufladefläche enough for several devices.
Such wireless electricity companies promise a long time - at CES this year are the first market-ready products to be seen. Smartphone manufacturer Palm delivers his new phone with a wireless Pre-charger called from Touchstone. The principle is the same as for the Aufladeflächen of Fulton and Powermat: magnetic resonance. A transmitter coil in the charger transmits electromagnetic energy coupled to the receiver coil in aufzuladenden device.
RFID-enabled chip magnetic field
Only a device with the same resonance frequency, the energy? other objects should not have been affected. The fine for a simple self-test at Powermat - one on the Aufladefläche of Powermat gelegtes iPhone took no damage. Nothing happened.
The manufacturer builds in Aufladeadapter-Nahfunk RFID chips. Your signal is activated until the Aufladefläche and told her what equipment they have to operate. Alticor, the parent company of the manufacturer Fulton uses the wireless technology already longer in its products for water treatment by UV light? the lamps are driven by magnetic field.
100 U.S. dollars for the cargo area
Powermat wants the end of the year, the first wireless adapter for power sale. Initially only available in the United States, a startup in Germany is scheduled for 2010. The loading will be U.S. $ 100 cost. You can charge the packs on the folding Aufladefläche (such as voluminous as five tablets of chocolate on top of each other) that they stöpselt into the outlet and then four devices simultaneously wirelessly charge - three small as cell phones and a bigger like a laptop (which you plug into a special stöpselt adapter, which is located on the Aufladefläche).
The Powermat adapter for devices to be 30 U.S. dollars cost. Powermat showed adapter for iPhones, iPods (Touch, Nano, Classic), some Motorola and Nokia phones. These adapters are the coils and radio chips in protective hidden.
This is a stopgap. The engineers of Fulton and Powermat say that the technology is small enough to use in small devices such as mobile phones to integrate. Fulton showed a prototype of a corresponding iPhones, which the engineers somehow Aufladetechnik interface. When Fulton was also the prototype of a mobile phone battery to see the technology for wireless recharging is integrated. Palm has apparently also in pre done.
Even if everything in practice working as well as for the demonstrations of the manufacturer of wireless electricity has a fairly big problem? the chicken-egg dilemma. Really, the technique is attractive only if the cell phones, cameras and other cameras no extra adapters for wireless electricity needs. But for manufacturers to convince these modules installed, a lot of people buy wireless chargers.
Invites laptop wirelessly
Powermat is this dilemma with the adapter to stopgap. Fulton Innovation will not own any products? they are working with partners who royalties against the current wireless technology in their equipment racks. Later this year, Bosch in the United States sell cordless screwdrivers, which can wirelessly charge. In addition, the chip manufacturer Texas Instrument Fulton wireless Aufladetechnik to integrate some of its chips.
However, it currently is that one's palm Pre not just on a Aufladefläche by another manufacturer such as Fulton or Powermat can load. A standard for communications equipment and the frequencies used is missing so far. After all, has existed since mid-December, a consortium of manufacturers, which should develop a standard? some of the best known members alongside Fulton Innovation: Texas Instruments, Logitech, Philips and Olympus.
Three manufacturers, no standard
Whether that is enough to create a standard set, is unclear. Schön wär's. And even if it is a standard there, the manufacturers still have all sorts of intriguing ideas, what the wireless electricity could still do everything: Fulton Innovation showed a kitchen table with recessed Ladepunkten that drives kitchen appliances (blender, food processor), an engineer led Powermat a desk with a recessed Ladepunkten, which was a radio, a laptop and a lamp powered wirelessly.
That could be the end of the ugly staubfangenden cable clusters, which almost lurking under every desk. The only catch is: You can use the devices not just move? they must have been near the Ladepunkte stand.
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