How It Works: Wi-Tricity
By Matt Gibson
Don’t you hate it when you forget to put your mobile phone on charge? Well, take heart — a new technology called WiTricity could mean never having to plug it in again. Welcome to the world of wireless electricity!
An irritated scientist is a dangerous thing. Thomas Edison kept stubbing his toe in the dark and now his light bulbs are busy warming the globe and annoying astronomers with their light pollution.
Marin Soljačić of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was woken up one time too many by the “LOW BATTERY” beep of his mobile phone, and decided that he also wanted to change the world. Since that fateful 3am incident, Soljačić and his team have been researching “WiTricity”- wireless electricity.
A hundred years ago, Nikola Tesla (click here for a short biog) started looking into the idea of transmitting power without wires. Soljačić is on
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