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    Me want!
    FT.

  • #2
    looks good

    Perhaps it could be applied to cordless mice and keyboards too???
    The Welsh support two teams when it comes to rugby. Wales of course, and anyone else playing England

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    • #3
      I imagine it could be taken a step further and actually transmit data to devices whilst charging them - like synchronising your pda, sim etc.
      FT.

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      • #4
        You know, my electric Toothbrush (Braun Oral B 3D Excel) does this since.. dunno

        AZ
        There's an Opera in my macbook.

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        • #5
          Yeah, not to mention security cards.
          Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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          • #6
            Yeah, its just an induction loop.. .but hey, it would make a cool mouse mat.
            The Welsh support two teams when it comes to rugby. Wales of course, and anyone else playing England

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            • #7
              Heard of this stuff for notebooks a year or two ago, but it was waaay too expensive.

              AZ
              There's an Opera in my macbook.

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              • #8
                Is it not slow to recharge?
                Dont just swallow the blue pill.

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                • #9
                  If you can leave it on the "charger" all day, who cares?

                  AZ
                  There's an Opera in my macbook.

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                  • #10
                    There was a post about inductive chargers a while back on MURC.

                    Though there is one way cool application I can think of. Imagine making the Ligitech MX700 an inductive charged device and the mouse pad the charger. No worry about battery life then, cause it would always be powered by the mouse pad

                    Jammrock
                    “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
                    –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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                    • #11
                      Yup, that's what I was thinking with my post
                      The Welsh support two teams when it comes to rugby. Wales of course, and anyone else playing England

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                      • #12
                        Yep, and they'll be linking this to cancer of the hands in about 20 years.
                        Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!

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                        • #13
                          No, to blank credit cards...i think the induction loop generates a magnetic field also, and can wipe any magnetic storage media placed directly upon it...

                          Like in stores when they put the anti-theft transponder on an induction table to short it out. Put a credit card on there and you are stuffed...

                          maybe they've sorted it out by now...
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                          • #14
                            Yeah, Inductive charging works by creating a magnetic field and inducing a charge from the flux in the secondard (in this case the toothbrush or phone etc). Due to heating and regulations on interferance, the induced current in the target device is going to be pretty low... enough to charge a low voltage battery however such as a mobile phone or toothbrush, or other device. I imagine it'll take longer to charge the phone that way than through a direct connection however.

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                            • #15
                              aye, but if it charges faster than the mouse battery drains, then who cares
                              The Welsh support two teams when it comes to rugby. Wales of course, and anyone else playing England

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