Inductive charging of mobile devices coming...

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  • Fat Tone
    Super MURCer
    • Aug 1999
    • 7579

    #1

    Inductive charging of mobile devices coming...

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    Me want!
    FT.
  • Paddy
    Super MURCer
    • Mar 2000
    • 6067

    #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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    • Fat Tone
      Super MURCer
      • Aug 1999
      • 7579

      #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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      • az
        Moderator
        • Feb 2001
        • 9336

        #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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        • Wombat
          Super MURCer
          • Aug 2000
          • 9498

          #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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          • Paddy
            Super MURCer
            • Mar 2000
            • 6067

            #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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            • az
              Moderator
              • Feb 2001
              • 9336

              #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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              • RedRed
                Super MURCer
                • May 2000
                • 2423

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

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                • az
                  Moderator
                  • Feb 2001
                  • 9336

                  #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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                  • Jammrock
                    The Berserker
                    • Aug 1999
                    • 8661

                    #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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                    • Paddy
                      Super MURCer
                      • Mar 2000
                      • 6067

                      #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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                      • gt40
                        This space for rent
                        • Sep 1999
                        • 3973

                        #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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                        • Evildead666
                          Super MURCer
                          • Mar 2002
                          • 3116

                          #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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                          • rylan
                            Super MURCer
                            • Sep 1999
                            • 2347

                            #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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                            • Paddy
                              Super MURCer
                              • Mar 2000
                              • 6067

                              #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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