Microsoft wants to charge your phone, WITH LASERS!

[Admiral Naismith]

If I get cancer while using this I'm telling all scientifically-illiterate overprotective moms out there that this causes cancer. I may make a post on webMD about it. Or a picture on pinterest.

[waggythegeek]

I do as well.

Waiting for the day when we can replace the leads on a motherboard and cables on a PC with lazers/fiber optic cables.

Because reasons.

If we did that, them computers could be much more efficient, because not only would they think at the speed of light, but using polarized light, they could use trinary instead of binary. Much good graphics.

[Palfi]

Lasers are true solution for everything

[ionbasa]

Yayyy to LAZERZ! And Yayy to RADIATIONZ!

 

oh hi cancer didnt see you coming... make yourself at home

 

interesting idea, but if you want to walk around WITH your phone whil its being charged because you cant stand it if its laying on your desk because its chraged via a wire, arnt you highly phone-addicted then?

You do realize that LASER just means all the light emitted is of the same  frequency, coherent (waves are in phase with eachoter) and  polarized?

 

Your risk of cancer is about the same as standing out in the sun or under a light bulb. Now this is assuming that the power output of the laser isn't something crazy that burns through objects, ala:

[Dabombinable]

Glorified solar charger (solar panels work off any source of light).

[MoDtEc]

You do realize that LASER just means all the light emitted is of the same  frequency, coherent (waves are in phase with eachoter) and  polarized?

 

Your risk of cancer is about the same as standing out in the sun or under a light bulb. Now this is assuming that the power output of the laser isn't something crazy that burns through objects, ala:

-snipping stuff i'd like to have at home-

Come on is it THAT hard for u guys to recognize a bad/ironic joke? My actual concern is in the last line of the post. I simply cannot see an application area where this 'd make sense. Use a cable, goddammit. Or get some reasonable sized batterys in ur devices.

But ill hol back my final (serious) judgement until this technology is actually usable for consumers.

 

Another thing: if the light  of the lasers is not seeable for the human eye its either ultraviolet or infrared. but we want to charge a battery with it which means infrared is not very likely to be used if the charging module does not contain a steam-engine to create power. so u'd use ultraviolet because it contains a significantly higher load of energy per emitted/absorbed quantum of light. that means were talking about a laserlight with a short wavelength which carries realatively big ammounts of energy and has got a high frequency. albeit it might not directly damage the human body the dosis is what makes the poison here, as always. u know that you shuld, if possible, only be x-rayed a certain ammount of times per year? its the same thing after all

 

-just sain'

[Tech Squirrel]

Come on is it THAT hard for u guys to recognize a bad/ironic joke? My actual concern is in the last line of the post. I simply cannot see an application area where this 'd make sense. Use a cable, goddammit. Or get some reasonable sized batterys in ur devices.

But ill hol back my final (serious) judgement until this technology is actually usable for consumers.

 

Another thing: if the light  of the lasers is not seeable for the human eye its either ultraviolet or infrared. but we want to charge a battery with it which means infrared is not very likely to be used if the charging module does not contain a steam-engine to create power. so u'd use ultraviolet because it contains a significantly higher load of energy per emitted/absorbed quantum of light. that means were talking about a laserlight with a short wavelength which carries realatively big ammounts of energy and has got a high frequency. albeit it might not directly damage the human body the dosis is what makes the poison here, as always. u know that you shuld, if possible, only be x-rayed a certain ammount of times per year? its the same thing after all

 

-just sain'

We receive infared light from the sun all the time. I have security cameras that use infared LEDs to light up the viewing area. Flying on an airplane exposes you to 30X the background radiation on the ground, but people don't quit flying. also if the beam was interrupted by a person wouldn't it shut off? What about tanning beds or just being in the sun? you receive IR light from both of them, in fact almost every lightbulb emits some IR light. A laser is just focused light, you would be more likely to burn yourself which would be unlikely with this system than to give yourself cancer.  It is not like this will be constantly on spamming IR light everywhere. IR Light is not very dangerous.

[EmeraldKiwi]

I'm like 50% sure that photo voltaic cells are not the solution to wireless charging. I'm also about 50% sure that photo voltaic cells are very similar to solar panels, which means, last time I checked, they are extremely inneficient in regards to the amount of power absorbed compared to the amount of power sent to the panel: 10 watts sent vs 2 watts absorbed for example.

[ShadowCaptain]

Everything should be done with lasers