Wireless charging, its about to be real and effective.

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NintendoPie on 20 March 2012

Ooh! I thought of this before! I should have patented it like Apple did with their iWorkout... Tsk tsk on me. :/

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superchunk on 20 March 2012

TomaTito said:

In other mobile news: Nokia has patented a magnetic patch that vibrates with the magnetic field generated from your cellphone (which also powers the patch). http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/03/20/nokia-patents-vibrating-tattoos/

I read about that today too... seems like it would be awesome to have on your member. ;)

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superchunk said:

TomaTito said:

In other mobile news: Nokia has patented a magnetic patch that vibrates with the magnetic field generated from your cellphone (which also powers the patch). http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/03/20/nokia-patents-vibrating-tattoos/

I read about that today too... seems like it would be awesome to have on your member. ;)

Is that a test tube in your pocket or have you just recieved a text.

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Looks awesome.

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JerCotter7 on 20 March 2012

TWRoO said:

superchunk said:

TWRoO said:
Pretty cool.
One thing... what will this do to current batteries? I don't have a fancy smart phone so my phone battery lasts about 10 days instead of 10 hours... but surely in both cases the best thing for overall battery life is still to let it run down before you charge it (admittedly battery tech is much better now but it's still a good idea to do it for those of us who don't like throwing away a perfectly good phone every year). As such, having something like this at your desk at work for example you would still be better turning it off so your phone doesn't get automatically charged when you don't need it.

You don't have to worry about that with Lithium ion. It doesn't have the memory affect.

Unless you're phone is ancient, you can also not worry about it.

I've owned phones for years and never had to replace a battery.

Same with portable game devices and PS3 controllers.

Hmm, seems you are right... I thought that was what had screwed my laptop battery up (at only 2 years old I would be lucky to get 30 minutes of non-plugged in time, compared to 4 hours new... whereas now at 3.5 years old I owuld have to turn wireless off and the screen to lowest brightness just to get 10 minutes) turns out it was probably the opposite problem... most of the time using it was spent plugged in, which is apprently not good for Li-ion (you would think laptop manufacturers could figure out an intelligent solution to that, ie have the laptop use some battery charge and stop it charging occasionally)

Mine were the oppisite. Nearly always plugged in so there was no charge/discharge. Most laptops will switch off power to the battery at 100%. Try turn your laptop on without a battery in it but plugged in.