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Flat Battery Charging?
Posted on June 2007 
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Hmmm…a thought occurs to me, not being a scientist ‘n’ all. I read that future witric devices might include mobile phones, laptops and other apparatus that require charging or have batteries to power them. All well and good, but if this witricity thing requires two resonating coils, the “transmitting” coil being electricity driven, how does the “receiving” coil in the witric device resonate if the battery in said device is flat?
Comments(0) BBC TV News Item
Posted on June 2007 in Snippets
The BBC did a short news report the other night on Witricity. If you prefer to watch rather than read, then you can check out the video here on Youtube.
Comments(0) Witricity’s Roots
Posted on June 2007 in Articles
A brief look around at all the comments appearing on news sites and blogs would appear to suggest that we live in a new world of Tesla experts, with many people keen to enthuse how MIT haven’t done anything new here with witricity. Tesla did it first apparently. So I thought blimey, everyone’s a Tesla expert bar me - ’bout time I learnt what went on there!
OK, potted bio: born a Serb in 1856, moved to America, did loads of interesting stuff, won some medals for his work, got ostracised for being mad (are you reading MIT?), died penniless Read the rest of this entry »
Comments(0) Google Statistics
Posted on June 2007 in Statistics
This thread follows on from the article Witricity And Google and charts Google results for a search on “witricity”. It is intended simply to monitor the propogation of the term from Day 1 (June 7th 2007) - the date of the first press release from MIT. All times are GMT and numbers show results found on the Google search.
Please note that where numbers seem to buck an obvious trend, this may possibly be put down to discrepencies between Google data centers (Google uses several data centers to deliver results often dependent on user location).
Edit July 7th 2007: An interesting footnote. The term “witric” seems to be starting to grow whilst the term “witricity” continues to shrink as duplicate news articles and ageing blog postings start to get weeded out. Results for “witric” are now at 16,900, whereas within the first 2 weeks they barely made 400. However, this is largely down to one “made for adsense” site spawning lots of content-light pages.
NB: The following statistics may be reproduced providing that they are credited and accompanied by a link back to this page.
| Date Checked | Time | Results | Landmark |
| Jun 07th 2007 | 09:00 | 0 (zero) | MIT Announcement. BBC 1st indexed entry. |
| Jun 07th | 16:00 | 330 | |
| Jun 08th | 10:00 | 24,600 | |
| Jun 09th | 08:00 | 24,500 | |
| Jun 10th | 08:00 | 562,000 | |
| Jun 10th | 16:30 | 637,000 | |
| Jun 11th | 16:00 | 872,000 | |
| Jun 12th | 10:00 | 1,060,000 | |
| Jun 12th | 18:00 | 1,180,000 | |
| Jun 13th | 08:00 | 1,550,000 | |
| Jun 13th | 21:00 | 1,730,000 | |
| Jun 14th | 08:00 | 1,800,000 | 1 Week since initial announcement |
| Jun 15th | 08:00 | 2,000,000 | |
| Jun 16th | 14:00 | 2,080,000 | |
| Jun 17th | 14:00 | 2,040,000 | First significant drop in search results |
| Jun 18th | 18:00 | 1,860,000 | |
| Jun 19th | 10:00 | 1,460,000 | |
| Jun 20th | 18:00 | 1,250,000 | |
| Jun 21st | 18:00 | 1,140,000 | |
| Jun 22nd | 10:00 | 1,100,000 | |
| Jun 23rd | 17:00 | 1,010,000 | |
| Jun 24th | 23:00 | 939,000 | |
| Jun 25th | 13:00 | 897,000 | |
| Jun 26th | - | - | Not tested |
| Jun 27th | 13:00 | 879,000 | |
| Jun 28th | 09:00 | 834,000 | |
| Jun 29th | 17:00 | 810,000 | |
| Jun 30th | 09:00 | 788,000 | |
| Jul 01st | 19:00 | 741,000 | |
| Jul 02nd | 22:00 | 733,000 | |
| Jul 03rd | 22:00 | 731,000 | |
| Jul 04th | 23:00 | 731,000 | |
| Jul 05th | 14:00 | 704,000 | |
| Jul 06th | 12:00 | 696,000 | |
| Jul 07th | 12:00 | 662,000 | |
| Jul 08th | 23:00 | 632,000 | |
| Jul 09th | 23:00 | 604,000 | |
| Jul 10th | 16:00 | 589,000 | |
| Jul 11th | 14:00 | 557,000 | |
| Jul 12th | 17:00 | 547,000 | |
| Jul 13th | 17:00 | 541,000 | |
| Jul 14th | 23:00 | 520,000 | |
| Jul 15th | 13:00 | 517,000 | |
| Jul 16th | 11:00 | 511,000 | |
| Jul 17th | 21:00 | 518,000 | |
| Jul 18th | 20:00 | 540,000 | |
| Jul 19th | 23:00 | 542,000 | |
| Jul 20th | 12:00 | 560,000 | |
| Jul 21st | 15:00 | 529,000 | |
| Jul 22nd | 15:00 | 503,000 | |
| Jul 23rd | 17:00 | 481,000 | |
| Jul 24th | 16:00 | 458,000 | |
| Jul 25th | 18:00 | 437,000 | |
| Jul 26th | 14:00 | 433,000 | |
| Jul 27th | 14:00 | 467,000 | |
| Jul 28th | 21:00 | 458,000 | |
| Jul 29th | 13:00 | 453,000 | |
| Jul 30th | 17:00 | 443,000 | |
| Jul 31st | 17:00 | 390,000 | Last daily update. From now on, occasional updates. |
| Aug 12th | 09:00 | 426,000 | |
| Sep 9th | 23:00 | 467,000 | |
| Dec 31st | 11:00 | 108,000 |
Comments(0) Commercial Hurdles
Posted on June 2007 in Articles
The advent of witricity certainly captures the attention, and the imagination, there is no doubt. But the invention (some would call it a re-invention) is only the first step towards a witric world and in itself brings up a number of issues that will need to be addressed before it is ready for public consumption. This article speculates on the hurdles that developers of the technology might face before we see the witric home or office become a reality.
Security: It will be a clever bod who works out how to encrypt electricity, but like any wireless technology Read the rest of this entry »
Comments(0) Witricity’s Likely Impact
Posted on June 2007 in Witricity
Ignoring the immediate impact this new technology is having according to Google propagation, if witricity takes hold, the impact goes well beyond the wow factor of wireless electricity. Now MIT have proven the technology, the intention will be to sell it on to someone who can develop it’s commercial application, and this is where it really starts. While right now, tests have succeeded in lighting a bulb at 7 feet, bear in mind it doesn’t even need a clear line of sight - no doubt this is merely the beginning.
The MIT team have already stated that they think witricity could be commonly used in powering mobile and battery driven devices over a short range within 3 to 5 years. Assuming the cost of the technology remains in public or commercial reach Read the rest of this entry »
Comments(0) Witricity And Google
Posted on June 2007 in Witricity
For those interested in speculating on the new wireless electricity technology dubbed Witricity it’s perhaps interesting to watch how the whole concept propagates through the Internet following an inaugral introduction. I have been doing exactly that since MIT reported their witricity test findings on June 7th 2007, and Google watchers, domainers and tech-heads may find the following witric.com statistics interesting.
On June 7th at 8am, a search for “Witricity” on Google returned zero results. Yup - zero, 0, nil, zilch, not one. Basically because no-one outside of MIT had heard of it! The BBC picked up on the MIT Witricity report Read the rest of this entry »
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