MIT professor’s book digs into the eclectic, textually linked
reading choices of people in medieval London. Imagine a future
in which wireless power transfer is feasible: cell phones,
household robots, mp3 players, laptop computers and other
portable electronics capable of charging themselves without ever
being plugged in, freeing us from that final, ubiquitous power
wire. Some of these devices might not even need their bulky
batteries to operate. A team from MIT's Department of Physics,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and
Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) has experimentally
demonstrated an important step toward accomplishing this vision
of the future. The team members are Andre Kurs, Aristeidis
Karalis, Robert Moffatt, Prof. Peter Fisher, and Prof. John
Joannopoulos (Francis Wright Davis Chair and director of ISN),
led by Prof. Marin Soljacic. Realizing their recent theoretical
prediction, they were able to light a 60W light bulb from a
power source seven feet (more than