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Pi Charger Uses Qi Standard to Extend Wireless Charging Reach Beyond Current Mats

dannys1 said:
Even that's too obvious for me, in fact it's an awful product as it doesn't even sit properly flush - you might as well use a charging mat and drill a hole just for its cable.

I want it to be total invisible and you put it anywhere on the arm of your chair and it charges, anywhere on the desk or kitchen work top. Then induction charging (let's be honest, thats what this is, induction charging not wireless charging) would be really useful.
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Correct, you can't have 10000 watt wifi transmitters, they won't give you cancer, they'll just set fire to things.

There's absolutely no tests shown that RF can cause cancer. None at all.

It just makes me laugh when it's things like this but no one mentions it all when it involves putting Earpods in your ear and having RF blasted directly at your head all day. It's a total non issue either way.
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Oh, I see. I suspect we’ll see a solution like that appear in soon on the market.
 
trife said:
So we can expect an iPhone to have this ability no sooner than 2022, right?
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Did you read the article? The iPhone 8 and X will both support being charged by this device as soon as Pi is released (they estimate 2018).
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oneteam said:
It's already available on iPhone 8 and iPhone X. Did you not read the article?
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I just basically said the same thing at the same time! Smart minds think alike. :)
 
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Is there side effects to long term exposure to the 12-foot charging field (i.e. increased risk of cancer, etc.)?
 
I don't know. Pi charging doesn't look too safe to me.

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melendezest said:
I'm thinking in this age of legal abortions, same-sex marriages, and general disdain for "traditional" families this is low on the priority list and more as a "beneficial" side effect, should it have an impact.
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Oh please. Nobody has "disdain" for traditional families. Save your inflammatory rhetoric for your own social media echo chamber.
 
The Watch charger is QI compatible -- but the watch is not. I can charge my QI compatible indicative devices using the watch charger. Amazed nobody has realized this.
 
Suckfest 9001 said:
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but seriously, a lot of you people need to go back to school... or at least read up on ionizing radiation
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So why don't you educate them instead of just being snarky. Has there been studies done on an impact of resonant inductive coupling on human body? What are the risks of short and long term effects?
 
Naaaaak said:
We'll find out it somehow causes cancer in 20 years.
After congressional testimony from expert witnesses saying it doesn't.
After countless articles assuring us it's "safe".

Only admitted once a bunch of people are affected.
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You mean like Aspartame, which we were lied about, ahem assured by the 'big Pharma' lobby, top experts and the CDC, was a natural substance, and was completely safe, until umpteen studies came out that linked it to a myriad of cancers and serious health problems?

Think I'll 'suffer' with having to plug in my devices for a while longer, or use the limited range mat, and play it safe.
 
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Directed energy charging is many orders of magnitude more energetic than Wi-Fi microwaves and it will take a crap ton of scientific studies before I feel safe using a charger that beams electromagnetic radiation in my direction.

Early adopters can all be Radium Girls while I conveniently charge my iPhone on a Qi mat or, FSM forbid, plug it in.
 
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Very cool that it is Qi compatible, possibly has a better chance than Energous at becoming adopted (unless Apple release an Energous charging base). Although Energous recently announced/released their base earlier this month so we’ll have to see how they do. I think the Energous base can charge up to 10W.
 
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jhuynh said:
Why isn't anyone asking the most important question here? How energy efficient is this? We all know regular "wireless" charging is already less efficient than wired charging. How much less efficient will this be because we wanted to place the device a few inches away from the charger instead of having them touch?
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Wireless charging is about convenience over efficiency the same way WiFi is for internet. Nobody uses WiFi because it is faster and more stable.
 
The Apple Tesla coil ... will recharge the new Apple pacemaker ... news at 6'oclock.
 
BMcCoy said:
This is the sort of thing I was expecting Apple to be releasing at some point...

Hopefully the partnership with Energous will yield something even more impressive, and not too far in the future..
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Hopefully next year Apple will include the Energous WattUp receiver in the iPhone 11 (or 9, if the idiots call it that) :)

http://ir.energous.com/press-releas...rporation-announces-gan-based-high-power-near

Edit: Ah, crap, see @Appleaker beat me to the punch at mentioning it....*sigh*
 
dannys1 said:
Now that is very nice!

I really wish you could buy the raw induction coils with a USB connector so you could make your own in furniture stuff a bit better.

I'm not interested in the charging mat thing at all - but if I can hide induction charges in multiple furniture places and in places in the car, that makes it much more useful.

I don't want to have to buy 5 pad charges to take it apart to cover the entire arm of my sofa though!
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Now that iPhones have adopted Qi, I'm fairly confident we'll slowly start seeing furniture with Qi charging built in. First from kickstarters and start ups, then maybe ikea, then, if qi is still around, other major manufacturers. The price may not be very pleasant at first though.
 
dannys1 said:
Now that is very nice!

I really wish you could buy the raw induction coils with a USB connector so you could make your own in furniture stuff a bit better.

I'm not interested in the charging mat thing at all - but if I can hide induction charges in multiple furniture places and in places in the car, that makes it much more useful.

I don't want to have to buy 5 pad charges to take it apart to cover the entire arm of my sofa though!
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Do a search on Amazon for "DIY Qi wireless charger."

Here's an example of one guy modifying his Tesla with a Qi induction coil:

 
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joueboy said:
No! Please No! As much as I like Apple that is a bad move for consumers like you. I would love to see this in every possible devices not only Apple iProducts. You're putting a limitation of its future and capability. A lot of accessories not necessarily a phone or tablets can take advantage of this.
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Hahahaha they might make it an open standard...
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LarrySmith said:
Buy them for 314 million.
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314? Why so exact?
 
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