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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:23 pm
by leDoOd
Just thought I'd uber-bump this thread with this article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1965
It IS possible, it has been done, it will be done in the future. I WIN!
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:41 pm
by Zantalos
Well, god damn.
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:59 pm
by Colicedus
What has it come to show?
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:09 pm
by Jeff
Colicedus wrote:What has it come to show?
parse error...
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:12 am
by wormguy
OK, this is too frickin' cool. I can imagine it won't be long before this gets implemented into more places...
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:08 am
by BunnyWithStick
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You do know this makes me think of cyborg ass implants, don't you?
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:32 am
by Colicedus
Jeff wrote:Colicedus wrote:What has it come to show?
parse error...
eeh? I mean as in what have we learnt from this!
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:39 pm
by NickD
BunnyWithStick wrote:…
You do know this makes me think of cyborg ass implants, don't you?
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:44 pm
by Colicedus
*Thinks of Stroge Stripper*
Ugh... you sick bastard!
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:50 am
by Makrond
More interestingly, and in line with your first idea, leDoOd, there's been some improvements to sound, in that it's literally been refined to be similar to a laser.
So, you're familiar with lasers, right? Invisible unless they hit something? Travel in a straight line? Well, some military researcher has discovered a way to make sound waves behave exactly the same way. Travel in a straight line, and are completely inaudible unless they hit something.It can also be transmitted over huge distances without losing too much power, exactly like a laser.
So. A way to have wireless power using only sound would be to get one of these hypersonic speakers, miniaturise it, put it inside a wall plug, and have it transmit the sound waves to a surface on the object being charged (I'm thinking something similar to a subwoofer, it moves backwards and forwards). If it was a high frequency (inaudible), and there was a magnet inside a copper coil attached to the other end of this flexible surface, the vibrations would make power.
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:54 am
by Colicedus
I had a thought for a Sound bomb.
I read somewhere that if you create enough pitch you can break glass.
Imagine how much chaos one could cause if you made a pitch even louder?
Move over Nukem!
You got Sound waves!
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:58 am
by BunnyWithStick
The problem is that it might be easier or more productive to transmit around the same pitch in the electromagnetic spectrum, AKA gamma rays. Then again, increasing it again wouldn't really do much, so a Sound Bomb might be pretty good.