Just remembered another minor tech hype from a few years ago when Silicon Valley douchebros wanted to sell everyone on wireless charging at a distance (like plug something into outlet and it uses magical waves to beam power to your phone and laptop)
They aren’t magical waves, they are microwaves just like your WiFi router and will start to cook your hot dog at around 5 watts - my iPhone fast charger is 30 watts. For reference your WiFi router is about 1/2 watt and the microwave on your countertop is 700-1100 watts.
Don’t put your appendages between the charging source and the receiver!
@thomasfuchs They still won’t shut up about farpoint inductive charging in the industrial mobile world.
Wireless charging, “why don’t you make faster robots”, and “make a Kiva-sized Roomba” are my top 3 most irritating feature requests that I need to find the time to just write wiki pages for already.
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