New Frontiers In Wireless Energy Transfer (broadcast Friday, August 3rd, 2007)

Electric power was transmitted from the coil structure at left to the coil and attached lightbulb at right without wires. Aristeidis Karalis, MIT

Move over Tesla - wireless energy transfer is making a move. In this segment, Ira talks with a researcher who lit up a 60-watt bulb from seven feet away -- with no wires. He thinks he's on to a way that laptops and cell phones could recharge themselves.

Guests

Andre Kurs
Graduate Student
Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

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• Marin Soljacic: Wireless Power Transfer
• Goodbye wires… - MIT News Office
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Segment produced by:Anne Marie Cunningham

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