[LINK] Some shocking news about wireless electricity

[Adam Todd]

At 10:38 AM 14/06/2007, Eleanor Lister wrote:
>Linkers,
>
>     i mentioned the content of this thread to a friend of mine who is an
>electrical engineer by trade, and his take on it was:
>
>     "Of course it could be used as a toy, but so can fibre optics and the
>     photoelectric effect. There would be plenty of real applications. Some
>     immediate uses for the technology would be to recharge batteries in
>     things like pacemakers and surgically inserted monitoring devices, to
>     power non-destructive testing probes in confined spaces, anything where
>     you wanted a self-contained device to be somewhere where you can't
>     readily get to it to recharge its batteries."

I can just see Pacemaker patients standing pressed against a wall for 
several hours whilst their batteries trickle charge!

Oh hang on, what a great use for the electric blanket

(rofl)

Now that puts a new spin on the phrase "Warm Hearted"  ;)