I'm an investor in Energous. Looking forward to what happens in the next year.
Are you still an investor?
I'm an investor in Energous. Looking forward to what happens in the next year.
Another year, another announcement by Energous that it will be displaying stuff at CES. Will this finally be the year? If Apple can get this into the next iPhone...
Link: http://appleinsider.com/articles/17...nge-power-transmitter-granted-approval-by-fcc
I'm thinking more along the lines of having a laptop, iphone, Apple Watch, and any other wireless device at a desk environment all charging simultaneously without wires and pads. To me, that is game changing.3ft won’t exactly be game changing. Main advantage is you don’t have to carefully align on the charging pad.
3ft won’t exactly be game changing. Main advantage is you don’t have to carefully align on the charging pad.
I agree it can someday be game changing. Just don’t agree that it is game changing when it works within 3 feet (and presumably it works not well at that distance, given physics and all)Not "game changing" but it's a pretty good start - especially if you have multiple hubs around the house/office. Not to mention, it's only going to improve. Bluetooth sucked when it was first introduced (in my opinion...), but now it's very useful (again, in my opinion).
I agree it can someday be game changing. Just don’t agree that it is game changing when it works within 3 feet (and presumably it works not well at that distance, given physics and all)
My problem with this is how do you prevent battery decay - If Everytime i walk into a room the pjone will just start charging. I try to charge my phone just once a day.
I’ve kept my MBPs plugged in all day for years. Battery holds up fine.Isn't all the smart battery management technology supposed to take care of all this so people don't need to worry about when to plug or not to plug? Are we really still at a point where plugging in a charger is the same as tapping directly into household power lines and force-feeding current into a battery?
Do people honestly think that using an 85 W Magsafe 2 power adapter in a MacBook Air is not good because it will "overpower" the Air by force-feeding 85 W to the laptop all the time, so they justify Apple needlessly complicating their inventory with all these different wattage laptop power adapters when one will do just fine?