No More Cords

Finally, according to Boston.com, another genius out of MIT is going to make the world a little more bearable.  A man named Marin Soljacic has found a logical and useful way to deliver electrical power without using cords.  I know batteries have been around for decades but they either need to be recharged or replaced.  Mr. Giler, WiTricity chief executive, where they were giving a demonstration of the technology, said Mr. Soljacic has found a way to harness electricity and send it through the air to power your t.v., laptop, or to charge the batteries in your cell phone.  I am not even talking about putting them directly on a mat that will charge the batteries of your MP3 player.  Boston.com quoted Giler saying;

“It’s not electricity going through the air; it’s actually a magnetic field.”

This magnetic field is basically the same as the earth’s and is somehow manipulated to be able to do this.  Since I do not know much about magnetic fields I am not sure how it works.  But clearly this has the possibility revolutionize a lot of things.  The article tells how the tecnhology was able to power a t.v. and play a documentary without any cords.  This technology also has the ability to transmit a signal to your t.v. in high definition without any coaxial cable, or any other kind of cable for that matter.

The other possibilities for this technology that the article mentioned was that it could power an electrical car without plugging it in.  You could place a mat on the garage floor and just drive on to it.  This could possibly meld into parking your electric car in a parking garage that is equipped with this technology and while you are at a baseball game your car is getting charged.  I think the possibilities for this technology are exciting.  Maybe besides batteries running a cordless drill it will be powered by your house or some other device that you will have on a construction site.

Mr. Giler believes that this technology will be commonplace in most homes in the next five years.  They are already developing the technology for businesses to be used by the end of this year.  I believe that this is the kind of technology that makes sense.  It is reasonably easy to use, though manipulating a magnetic field was probably no small feat, and it will be easy to adapt to.