[real-eyes] Re: Powercast
- From: "Reginald George" <sgeorge@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 00:45:02 -0500
Oh come on. You guys just don't have the vision to see the potential. All
great innovations start out small this way. What about cars that run on
electrically charged roads with no wires? It could happen. The military
wouldn't be in on it if they didn't think it was a big deal. I'm sure they
aren't releasing the half of it. There are long range implications for
space based sattelite power systems, communications, and ultimately big
savings in infrastructure for utilities. Anytime you can eliminate any wire
without loss there's money in it. It could turn out to be a short range toy
or a technology that will change the world in 50 years like radio did. And
this one company will likely have all the patents. When they go public I
will be there.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duyahn Walker" <themusicman1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 12:25 AM
Subject: [real-eyes] Re: Powercast
Let me just say this. I am not impressed.
Duyahn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Morrow" <morrowmediakc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:56 PM
Subject: [real-eyes] Re: Powercast
> Hey, cool! The blind might have use for street lamps after all!
>
> Kim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Jim Fettgather
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 8:49 PM
> To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [real-eyes] Re: Powercast
>
> If the power is out, then you can't plug the transmitter into a wall
> socket,
>
> so you are out of luck.
> Could I stand under a street lamp and charge my phone?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "& Ruthie" <chaosynchronous@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 8:04 PM
> Subject: [real-eyes] Re: Powercast
>
>
> How about the power's out and you need to charge your cel battery...no
> power, no charge...unless you have one of these. Same with the laptop, a
> lamp, your refridgerator...oh wait, did it say it converts it to AC power
> or
> DC? lol.
>
>
> Ruthie &
>
> When it rains, why don't sheep shrink?
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kim Morrow" <morrowmediakc@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 7:58 PM
> Subject: [real-eyes] Re: Powercast
>
>
>> Okay--so let me get this straight. The only difference is that you don't
>> have to physically plug in your cell phone. It's not like you have a
>> completely battery free phone. So where is the great innovation here????
>>
>> Kim
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> On Behalf Of & Ruthie
>> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 5:58 PM
>> To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [real-eyes] Powercast
>>
>> <URL:
>>
> http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/04/01/840334
>> 9/index.htm?postversion=2007033007
>> CNNmoney
>> Powered by
>> Death of the cell phone charger
>> A Pennsylvania entrepreneur has developed technology that gives you
>> all the battery juice you need directly from the air. Business 2.0
>> reports.
>> Business 2.0 Magazine
>> By Melanie Haiken, Business 2.0 Magazine
>> March 30 2007: 7:08 AM EDT
>> (Business 2.0 Magazine) -- How much money could you make from a
>> technology that replaces electrical wires? A startup called
>> Powercast, along with the more than 100 companies that have inked
>> agreements with it, is about to start finding out. Powercast and its
>> first major partner, electronics giant Philips, are set to launch
>> their first device powered by electricity broadcast through the air.
>> It may sound futuristic, but Powercast's platform uses nothing more
>> complex than a radio--and is cheap enough for just about any company
>> to incorporate into a product. A transmitter plugs into the wall,
>> and a dime-size receiver (the real innovation, costing about $5 to
>> make) can be embedded into any low-voltage device. The receiver
>> turns radio waves into DC electricity, recharging the device's
>> battery at a distance of up to 3 feet.
>> Picture your cell phone charging up the second you sit down at your
>> desk, and you start to get a sense of the opportunity. How big can
>> it get? "The sky's the limit," says John Shearer, Powercast's
>> founder and CEO. He estimates shipping "many millions of units" by
>> the end of 2008.
>> For years, electricity experts said this kind of thing couldn't be
>> done. "If you had asked me seven months ago if this was possible, I
>> would have said, 'Are you dreaming? Have you been smoking
>> something?'" says Govi Rao, vice president and general manager of
>> solid-state lighting at Philips (Charts). "But to see it work is
>> just amazing. It could revolutionize what we know about power."
>> So impressed was Rao after witnessing Powercast's demo last summer
>> that he walked away jotting down a list of the industries to which
>> the technology could immediately be applied: lighting, peripherals,
>> all kinds of handheld electronics. Philips partnered with Powercast
>> last July, and their first joint product, a wirelessly powered LED
>> light stick, will hit the market this year. Computer peripherals,
>> such as a wireless keyboard and mouse, will follow in 2008.
>> Broadcasting power through the air isn't a new idea. Researchers
>> have experimented with capturing the radiation in radio frequency at
>> high power but had difficulty capturing it at consumer-friendly low
>> power. "You'd have energy bouncing off the walls and arriving in a
>> wide range of voltages," says Zoya Popovic, an electrical
>> engineering professor at the University of Colorado who works on
>> wireless electricity projects for the U.S. military.
>> That's where Shearer came in. A former physicist based in
>> Pittsburgh, he and his team spent four years poring over wireless
>> electricity research in a lab hidden behind his family's coffee
>> house. He figured much of the energy bouncing off walls could be
>> captured. All you had to do was build a receiver that could act like
>> a radio tuned to many frequencies at once.
>> "I realized we wanted to grab that static and harness it," Shearer
>> says. "It's all energy."
>> So the Powercast team set about creating and patenting that
>> receiver. Its tiny but hyperefficient receiving circuits can adjust
>> to variations in load and field strength while maintaining a
>> constant DC voltage. Thanks to the fact that it transmits only safe
>> low wattages, the Powercast system quickly won FCC approval--and $10
>> million from private investors.
>> Powercast says it has signed nondisclosure agreements to develop
>> products with more than 100 companies, including major manufacturers
>> of cell phones, MP3 players, automotive parts, temperature sensors,
>> hearing aids, and medical implants.
>> The last of those alone could be a multibillion-dollar market:
>> Pacemakers, defibrillators, and the like require surgery to replace
>> dead batteries. But with a built-in Powercast receiver, those
>> batteries could last a lifetime.
>> "Everyone's looking to cut that last cord," says Alex Slawsby, a
>> consultant at Innosight who specializes in disruptive innovation.
>> "Think of the billion cell phones sold last year. If you could get
>> Powercast into a small percentage of the high-end models, those
>> would be huge numbers."
>> Could Powercast's technology also work for larger devices? Perhaps,
>> but not quite yet. Laptop computers, for example, use more than 10
>> times the wattage of Powercast transmissions.
>> But industry trends are on Shearer's side: Thanks to less
>> energy-hungry LCD screens and processors, PC power consumption is
>> slowly diminishing. Within five years, Shearer says, laptops will be
>> down to single-digit wattage--making his revenue potential even more
>> electrifying.
>>
>>
>> Ruthie &
>>
>> Programming just with goto's is like swatting flies with a sledgehammer.
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