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04/30/09
05/03/09
Does Energizer make the battery portion? Because this isn't _just_ the cradle you'd be buying. You'd also be getting one or two induction battery packs with it.
04/30/09
05/03/09
The power return is probably too low, plus it doesn't help you at all if you're not playing a motion-control game. Watches don't take much juice at all, and you wear them all day long. Even minor movements over the course of a day's activity are enough to charge it up again. With a Wiimote, that rumble function especially is going to draw a lot more power, and the recharge would be pretty minor for only a couple hours use at a time.
So, you don't get much charge during gameplay, but now you've devoted a portion of that battery pack to a motion-powered generator, which means the actual batteries will be even smaller, so they'll run dry faster. Maybe the recharge will be enough to offset the lost capacity, but I kinda doubt it unless you're really aggressive with your Wiimote motions.
01/08/09
Induction charging has been around for many years now, but it is inherently wasteful, as the increased amount of power required to creative the induction field means there will be power loss. No amount of materials science will improve that, it's simply a matter of electrical science. The benefit of induction charging has typically been for devices that, for safety reasons, can not have exposed contacts, such as underwater devices, or devices that must be sealed in environments with potentially fammable gasses, etc.
To wilfully and wantonly waste power this way, to no apparent gain, is just incredibly vain and ignorant. I'm apalled that Gizmodo would even report on such a device without looking deeper into the global impact of the device.
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If you mean electrocution, there's no risk of that.
The same tech is already being used with electric toothbrushes and shavers.
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