Microsoft researchers use light beams to charge smartphones: Read more on this subject: Science, Medicine and Technology News Story Source: TechWorld.Com Smartphones are amazing but their battery life is frequently absurd. Its not uncommon for people to charge their smartphones once, twice or even more in the course of a single day. Enter a team from Microsoft Research that wants to stop you from worrying about plugging in your phone. Yunxin Liu, Zhen Qin and Chunshui Zhao from Microsoft Researchs Beijing campus have developed a new system they dub AutoCharge: A prototype automatic charging system for smartphones. But not only is it designed to charge smartphones automatically, it does so wirelessly. The researchers paper (PDF) notes that wireless power methods have several disadvantages, preventing them from being used in our targeted usage scenarios: First, the electromagnetic radiation of wireless power is much higher than wireless communications (e.g., Wi-Fi or 3G). Thus, safety to human bodies is a big issue in wireless power. As a result, wireless power is usually used only in extreme scen Read More or Make a Comment
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:37:58 +0000
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