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those scientists need to get off their asses and make this happen!
i fuckin' know!
there is realy no excuse
you know op, they probably are trying but have yet to make the breakthrough that allows it to be possible. be patient
hmm...not sure op
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baw
Nov 5, 2008

RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
like all my other stuff is wireless but i have to have this stupid power cable like some kind of idiot caveman. in atlas shrugged there was some thing that pulled static electricity from the air so why don't they just do that...morons!

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Rapman the Cook
Aug 24, 2013

by Ralp
They have.

baw
Nov 5, 2008

RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
then why do i still need a power cable! next!

Devils Affricate
Jan 22, 2010
It exists, it just isn't that great yet

baw
Nov 5, 2008

RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
"yet"

lazy idiots need to hurry thefuck up

Al Cowens
Aug 11, 2004

by WE B Bourgeois
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power

Shasta Orange Soda
Apr 25, 2007

baw
Nov 5, 2008

RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY

look im being serious i dont care about whatever technology they have in the star track movies

porkchop_express
May 27, 2004
tesla is the loving man

Rapman the Cook
Aug 24, 2013

by Ralp
FACT: You can use the heat generated from beating off to charge your phone.

lonesomedwarf
Mar 22, 2010

um ever hear of a little thing called WARDENCLYFFE

lonesomedwarf
Mar 22, 2010

gently caress edison westinghouse and marconi tesla was loving awesome

brick cow
Oct 22, 2008

lonesomedwarf posted:

um ever hear of a little thing called WARDENCLYFFE

NOW i HAVE!

cool new Metroid game
Oct 7, 2009

hail satan

just fill the air with electricity like tesla wanted

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power#Timeline_of_wireless_power

there is a bunch of poo poo here im too gay to understand but maybe someone else can make sense of it

Digiwizzard
Dec 23, 2003


Pork Pro
Wireless power is a thing and used in pretty much every wall wart and power brick made before 1995

Al Cowens
Aug 11, 2004

by WE B Bourgeois

Fojar38 posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power#Timeline_of_wireless_power

there is a bunch of poo poo here im too gay to understand but maybe someone else can make sense of it
it exists but it's incredibly inefficient so we only use it for certain special applications like RFID-esque things in contactless smart cards (very weak radio receivers that can get enough juice just from induction)

Shasta Orange Soda
Apr 25, 2007

Digiwizzard posted:

Wireless power is a thing and used in pretty much every wall wart and power brick made before 1995

Why was it used for those applications, and why did they stop in 1995?

Digiwizzard
Dec 23, 2003


Pork Pro

Shasta Orange Soda posted:

Why was it used for those applications, and why did they stop in 1995?

because electrical induction is real bad at transmitting power so everyone uses transformers to step down high voltages to low voltages. switched mode power supplies only recently became affordable and are often so efficient that you dont even need a transformer anymore. AC ones generally still have a transformer anyway because otherwise if the circuitry fucks up it'll probably kill you + anything it's connected to, whereas its p much impossible to gently caress up two coils of wire

Digiwizzard fucked around with this message at 11:27 on Jul 13, 2014

joxxuh
May 20, 2011

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

it's like you never even heard about solar cell fedoras

lonesomedwarf
Mar 22, 2010


Iprazochrome
Nov 3, 2008
has anyone mentioned Tesla yet cos oh boy, I sure am eager to talk about famed Albanian scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

Bolian Blues posted:

has anyone mentioned Tesla yet cos oh boy, I sure am eager to talk about famed Albanian scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla

serbian inventor Nikolai Tesla. serbian.

i'm watching you closely bolian blues, you will not take my clay

lonesomedwarf
Mar 22, 2010

same

I'm Crap
Aug 15, 2001

lonesomedwarf posted:

gently caress edison westinghouse and marconi tesla was loving awesome
le epic thissery my good man.......

newreply.php
Dec 24, 2009

Pillbug
someone post the oatmeal

newreply.php
Dec 24, 2009

Pillbug
no wait no one post the oatmeal

in fact if the guy that makes the oatmeal is reading this, and i bet he is: never post an oatmeal again and take all the old ones offline

baw
Nov 5, 2008

RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
i dont understand what those posts mean but ok

Maneck
Sep 11, 2011

porkchop_express posted:

tesla is the loving man

His cloning machine created serious social issues, though.

Iprazochrome
Nov 3, 2008

waitwhatno posted:

serbian inventor Nikolai Tesla. serbian.

i'm watching you closely bolian blues, you will not take my clay

Albanian, Serbian, Turkish, whatever it's all pretty much the same

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.
turkish doesn't sound like you're hocking up a gob of phlegm

Full Metal Jackass
Jan 22, 2001

Rabid bats are welcome in my home
once america discovers this we will figure out how to kill people with it first

Maneck
Sep 11, 2011
Also OP you probably want smart scientists to make the wireless power thing. Dumb ones might kill us all trying.

PyPy
Sep 13, 2004

by vyelkin
Probably hasn't been done yet because a company hasn't figured out how to make money from research, production, & subsidizing it other companies to package into the products they already have to sell it to stupid people like you.


And the best and the brightest are too busy making boner pills and handheld devices.

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

Bolian Blues posted:

Albanian, Serbian, Turkish, whatever it's all pretty much the same

you fucker, i warned you. i'm getting my friends bogdan and rogdan, where do you live?

ANIME AKBAR
Jan 25, 2007

afu~
Wireless power exists for important things like medical implants and remote sensor networks, not your shiny manchild machines you bougie babies.

Nastyman
Jul 11, 2007

There they sit
at the foot of the mountain
Taking hits
of the sacred smoke
Fire rips at their lungs
Holy mountain take us away
http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones-accessories/EP-P100IJWUST2

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
one of the libraries on my campus has a cellphone charging station and it's basically something that looks like the monolith from 2001 with a screen on it and the wire you connect to your phone is about half a foot long so i guess you're supposed to stand around like a stupid idiot while it charges because you were too dumb to charge your phone before you went to bed

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Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

ANIME AKBAR posted:

Wireless power exists for important things like medical implants and remote sensor networks, not your shiny manchild machines you bougie babies.

lol @ calling a smartphone a manchild machine in TYOOL 2014

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