iPhones with erogenous zones?. At last a Jobs-sized innovation after all these years! It's such a crazy idea ... It just might ... work! As long as theres a free tinfoil suit and hat coming with them. Health and Safety an' all!
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Apple Possibly Working With Energous on Extended Range Wireless Charging for Future iPhones
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It may charge at a slower rate than it drains, but it could be a way to effectively
"increase battery life". Let's say you add 20% of time to your off the charger time. I, for one, would consider that a win. Or at least a nice big step in the right direction. That's not even considering the fact that most don't use their laptops off the charger from full to dead in one sitting. Once it hibernates (and greatly reduces it's energy drain) we could see the charge actually going up. I know my 2011 MBP hibernates at about 3-5% per 24 hours.
BlueTooth wireless headphones. That would eliminate one complaint about eliminating the 3.5mm jack, since they would rarely run out of power.
Nikolai Tesla knew how to do it. But his idea was to offer local energy to people for free.
Of course, that didn't work too well with JP Morgan and the other greedy industrialists and moneylenders, who's main interest was their own enrichment and not the welfare of people in general.
This group of organised criminals went on to create the Federal Reserve (their own private "central" bank) which became and still is the foundation of the creation of the fascist police state that some call the USA which actually just is a ugly facade for organised crime all over the world.
Of course, that didn't work too well with JP Morgan and the other greedy industrialists and moneylenders, who's main interest was their own enrichment and not the welfare of people in general.
This group of organised criminals went on to create the Federal Reserve (their own private "central" bank) which became and still is the foundation of the creation of the fascist police state that some call the USA which actually just is a ugly facade for organised crime all over the world.
It's a good thing Samsungs around, you might not have all your toys without them, they certainly wouldn't be as good.
It's not that hysterical to question whether an untested technology that wirelessly transfers electricity might be harmful to humans
Exactly! This is a far bigger deal for the Watch than anything else. It means you never have to take it off. That had the benefit of allowing it to be a truly personal alarm clock (waking the wearer up without disturbing their partner), to do sleep tracking, and to simply be more convenient.
I don't envisage upgrading my Apple Watch until this feature is available.
I hope Apple do use some standard, non proprietary solution here - using something proprietary here would be like using a proprietary wifi alternative, so this report is good news.
I love these stories:
Apple Possibly Working With Energous on Extended Range Wireless Charging for Future iPhones
Possibly. Or not.
Apple is also possibly working on iPhones that......
Apple Possibly Working With Energous on Extended Range Wireless Charging for Future iPhones
Possibly. Or not.
Apple is also possibly working on iPhones that......
The thought of devices being charged without being tethered to a device is amazing.
He was specifically referring to magnetic induction charging. It has little to no value. The watch has a reason to use it, most consumer products do not need it. This report is different tech and promising
Duh.
Do you think there is a very specific reason why he used those very specific criticisms while Apple at the same time is clearly researching a better way to do it?
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...le-nails-future-wireless-charging-system.html
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...ster-details-of-wireless-charging-system.html
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...ing-patent-surfaces-since-late-september.html
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...for-wireless-charging-system-new-mac-pro.html
You understand that Phil is head of marketing right?
Duh.
Do you think there is a very specific reason why he used those very specific criticisms while Apple at the same time is clearly researching a better way to do it?
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...le-nails-future-wireless-charging-system.html
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...ster-details-of-wireless-charging-system.html
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...ing-patent-surfaces-since-late-september.html
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...for-wireless-charging-system-new-mac-pro.html
You understand that Phil is head of marketing right?
Schiller's MO
Talk the hell down about everything else everybody does. Everything else thats not Apple is bad, wrong, or just not good.
Apple releases or does something similar to one of these talking points?
ITS NOW MAGICAL!
Well, they're very consistent in releasing a solution that answers the EXACT criticisms they lay out previously....
If that nuance, finding a better way than the solution that the rest of the industry has implemented, isn't important...then Apple wouldn't be the company that they are. Seems to be working out pretty well.
Sometimes yes and sometimes no. I Do think that they at the design level, seem to understand user interaction a lot better than many of their competition and have a great tendency of taking existing technologies, and implementing them in ways that users can understand and use better.
But they often get their by taking / buying up those who come up with that innovation, only after downplaying or attacking how bad it is. For example with Fingerprint scanners. THey were hardly unique in using it. But they were unique to make it a technology people would want to use.
My problem isnt' with their tech, I think Apple tech and products are really good. I own many, I just think that the cabal of their executives are two faced and have missing moral compass where they have no problem talking down others while congratulating themselves for doing similar. (EG, the sizing debate)
All my Apple "iDevices" (3 iPhones, 2 iPads, 1 Watch) live within a 15'x20' space 90% of the time. As long as they charge completely within (say) 12 hours, I'll be happier than a pig in slop.
Add the capability to add a wireless transmitter to my car (e.g., USB adapter) and I'm in heaven
Bring it on!
Add the capability to add a wireless transmitter to my car (e.g., USB adapter) and I'm in heaven
Bring it on!
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With this technology you can just carry a portable power brick that always connects power to your iPhone and remove the battery completely! Imagine how thin Jony Ive can make the iPhone now!
/s (but not really)
/s (but not really)
Unfortunately that is inevitable, seems like every new technology is met with apocalyptic warnings.
Recent research has so far proven inconclusive re: any link between WiFi signals and brain tumors, but most of that research also suggests we should go slow until further research unconditionally rules out any definitive correlation or causation.
All baseless hysteria aside, this proposed wireless power transfer technology to be used for charging our various gadgets should likewise be thoroughly examined for any possible negative consequences to living organisms. To me that would only seem prudent.
The Watch is a great example of something that could benefit from this tech. A big criticism people have about the Apple Watch is that it has to be taken off to be charged, and it has to be charged roughly every day. That keeps it from being very useful for things like sleep monitoring. And we're talking about a device that already HAS wireless charging of the kind that some brands of cell phone advertise as a feature.
If your Watch could charge itself overnight while it is on your wrist and during the day while you are at work, it becomes a device that you wear as carelessly as, well, a wristwatch.
And if your phone could charge itself while it's still in your pocket (in certain places), and even pull some of its energy from the air while you're using it the way you normally use it, you could find yourself rarely or never having to put it on the charger.
It's prudent to examine the tech for any demonstrable consequences, and then to weigh it against likely benefits. If every invention had to prove there were no possible bad effects, we'd still be waiting for fire (or perhaps we would have rejected it out of hand).
