Scootiep

January 11, 2010 at 7:03am

My guess is that a version that accepts other forms of waves to help power it isn't far off, but  still, it beats the crap out of the horribly inefficient power-mats. in fact, here you're actually recycling otherwise wasted energy which is pretty damn cool. I'll take two of these, thank you.

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Shalbatana

January 11, 2010 at 6:58am

 He'd be running around in circles with his tunig fork right now going "I told them"

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vash2695

January 11, 2010 at 4:23am

its amazing that no one came up with this before, but why limit it to only wifi? were literally bombarded with radio waves constantly.why are they limiting it to just 2.4ghz. why not make it capable of using radio, tv, cb, walkie talkies, cell phone towers, even the EMFs from outlets. although i dont know if you could make something that can just recieve everything at once, its worth looking into.

Quakindude

January 11, 2010 at 3:03am

I'd be worried about the "battery memory" effect this would have on some batteries. I'll be looking forward to this. Would be great for Wii and PS3 controllers too.

But one of the posters below me has a very good point. CES was simply crawling with WiFi hotspots. How would a single, home router do for this?

If it works well for a single router in the home, can you oversaturate and greatly increase recharge times if you have multiple devices that utilize WiFi recharging?

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K0BALT

January 11, 2010 at 12:22am

 great concept. love to have one.

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knexkid

January 10, 2010 at 9:26pm

Alright MaxPC, as soon as this thing comes out, I want a review! And if it works even to the slightest degree, I would definetly think about getting one, if it is under $50.

Matt_Rapp

January 10, 2010 at 9:19pm

It may not have the juice to charge a laptop, etc but I think this could be the next big thing as long as it doen't end up as vaporware. I'd like to think that he is telling the truth when he said it charged the blackberry in 90 minutes so I am not to worried about the science. Of course it'll probably charge slower outside of the Wi-Fi crazyness of CES but even if it is only capable of a trickle charge i would still be interested. if they can hit the planned OEM equivalent prices i don't see a reason why after a few years almost everything wouldn't have one built in.

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thematejka

January 10, 2010 at 8:55pm

If they say it can charge at the rate they claim, I think it's feasible. We've seen many astounding things in the past and this may be one of them. It may seem that RCA can't possibly pull this off when you look at it scientifically, but we often we surprise ourselves:P. I am game for a laptop that charges without a cord. That's super awesome.

Techrocket9

January 10, 2010 at 8:20pm

If this takes off, I'll kick myself. I had a similar idea a few years ago, but never did anything.

 

 

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ogremustcrush

January 10, 2010 at 7:03pm

You'd have to be surrounded by a lot of wifi for this to ever work effectively. The average access point has less that 100mW of output, and only a tiny fraction of this could be captured to charge a device at range. Now, a standard usb port outputs 5 volts at 500mA, which is the eqivilent of 2500mW, 25times the typical TOTAL output of a standard wireless access point. Even at the maximum wattage allowed by law for WiFi, 1000mW, that is still less than half a usb ports possible power, and in reality no device could ever hope to capture more than a tiny fragment of that from the airwaves.