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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Intel on Thursday showed off a wireless electric power system that analysts say could revolutionize modern life by freeing devices from transformers and wall outlets.

Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner demonstrated a Wireless Energy Resonant Link as he spoke at the California firm's annual developers forum in San Francisco.

Electricity was sent wirelessly to a lamp on stage, lighting a 60 watt bulb that uses more power than a typical laptop computer.

Most importantly, the electricity was transmitted without zapping anything or anyone that got between the sending and receiving units.

"The trick with wireless power is not can you do it; it's can you do it safely and efficiently," Intel researcher Josh Smith said in an online video explaining the breakthrough.

"It turns out the human body is not affected by magnetic fields; it is affected by elective fields. So what we are doing is transmitting energy using the magnetic field not the electric field."

Examples of potential applications include airports, offices or other buildings that could be rigged to supply power to laptops, mobile telephones or other devices toted into them.

The technology could also be built into plugged in computer components, such as monitors, to enable them to broadcast power to devices left on desks or carried into rooms, according to Smith.

"Initially it eliminates chargers and eventually it eliminates batteries all together," analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group said of Intel's wireless power system.

"That is potentially a world changing event. This is the closest we've had to something being commercially available in this class."

Previous wireless power systems consisted basically of firing lightning bolts from sending to receiving units.

Smith says Intel's wireless power system is still in an early stage of development and much research remains before it can be brought to market.

Rattner spoke of technological transformations he expects by the year 2050.

"You'd like to cut the last cord," Smith said.

"It's great that we have wireless email and wireless internet and stuff like that but at the end of the day it would be nice to have wireless recharge as well."

thats insane.

that means my balls will become magnetically charged and get attracted to all sorts of objects through my pants...

but seriously, magnetic fields may not screw with us, but it screws with much of our stuff, like credit cards for example. does this mean we will have to switch to implanted chips to track our monies??? if so, we are in a lot of trouble.

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that's F*CKING awesome insane but awesome, man just got to wait 40 years to use it thats all :(

40 years F*CK that i will be dead Yellow_Flash_Colorz_PDT_31

nicholi tesla first demonstrated this 100 years ago :)

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i dont want no national id chip in me F*CK that

No we do that with drugs,liquor and pawn shops on every street corner in your hood.

think about it though, if they have wireless power, then anything, ANYTHING, can get powered. meaning the smallest thing can have power anytime anywhere to do whatever it needs to do. this means that ID chips (implanted or the ones in our credit cards, new gov't issued ID cards, passports, and license plates - not to mention the ones already producing singals in our vehicle door remotes, cell phones, etc.) can produce signals that constantly track our locations. there have already been cases of this happening with cell phone signals, so don't think they wouldn't try to do it with other forms of signal generation. some of you may think this sounds crazy, but if you have done any research on things going on around the county and world it sounds very practicle.

I've been talking about wireless power and how convenient it would be for a long time. Usually because people comment on how many wires I always have running all over my room, which is a couple dozen. :/

And sure all sorts of shady government bullshit can happen with wireless power, but shady government bullshit happens with everything already, so it's not like we will be much worse off in that regard.

i agree with u qwned our gov can do wat ever i wants with out askin and it does

o ye sox i got a knife that can pop the chip right out from under ur skin so dont worry