Wireless power transfer (WPT) has recently become a hot topic. The idea behind it, however, has been known for more than a century when in 1891 Nikola Tesla lit electric lamps wirelessly in his ...

Eric Itakura, Product Marketing Director for IDT, presented this introduction to inductive wireless power and IDT’s new best-in-class wireless power transmitter and receiver IC solutions designed for ...

If you can imagine a massive, horrifying beast with some 6 million miles of tentacles that costs up to $33 billion to feed and $5 trillion to replace, then you can imagine the U.S. electricity grid.

Could this be the end of electric power cords? A Massachusetts company said that within 18 months it will have on the market a wireless electricity system to power -- through the air -- lights, ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Serbian-American physicist engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla is ...

Transferring electricity through the air to power an electronic gadget seems impossible. Nikola Tesla, the radio pioneer, tried unsuccessfully to do it in the early 1900s. Technical hurdles have ...

Forget smartphone charging. When it comes to next-generation wireless power, engineers in Japan are working on a system that can send large amounts of electrical power over considerable distances.

THIS book is likely to appeal to the layman who is anxious to know something about how his wireless set works, and who may be expected to have forgotten all he ever knew about elementary electricity ...

This chapter covers the following subjects: Wireless Local-Area Networks: A brief history of wireless networking and some of the basic concepts. How Bandwidth Is Achieved from RF Signals: The ...

WiTricity, one of the major players engaged in wireless charging technology, announced the completion of a $34 million investment round. The round was led by Stage 1 Ventures, with undisclosed ...