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    Conductive Charging Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch

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    Image of Quikstep Quikstep
    06/23/09

    In reply to Conductive Charging Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch
    iPhone accessories to mimic the Pre.

    The revolution has begun.


    Flame on.

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    06/23/09

    @Quikstep:


    this style of charger has been around for various blackberry models for well over a year now.

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    Image of Magic Beans? Sure, I'll Buy Some!! Magic Beans? Sure, I'll Buy Some!!
    06/23/09

    In reply to Conductive Charging Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch
    I'm not up on the whole induction thing, and I will never own the cooktop for that matter. But doesn't induction also create a magnetic field? Just curious. Not good for all that pirated material you spent countless evenings downloading to be scattered into random 1's and 0's.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    06/23/09

    @Magic Beans? Sure, I'll Buy Some!!:


    flash memory isn't magnetic in nature, and furthermore, this isn't induction charging.

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    Image of OldCrow OldCrow
    06/23/09

    In reply to Conductive Charging Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch
    But will it transform my phone into a Decepticon?


    What is with the cases and the dock nub?

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    06/23/09

    @OldCrow:


    RTFA.

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    Image of OldCrow OldCrow
    06/23/09

    @nutbastard:


    I read it bastard, does the pre need that? Why should the iphone?

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    06/23/09

    @OldCrow:


    First of all, this isn't inductive charging a la pre. This is orientation-irrelevant-contact charging.


    Inside the pre is a little tiny coil that is tuned to capture RF at very close proximity (which it would have to be, since RF energy dissipates with the inverse cube of the distance transmitted) That's why there's no metal nubs on the back of the pre.


    The iPhone does not have such a coil built in, and thus requires an external coil add on, or in this case, an orientation-irrelevant-contact pattern of pins, which is then placed on a mat with alternating hot and ground connections.

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    06/23/09

    @OldCrow:


    oh, and the docknub is there to route the power into the dock, while providing a pass-through for a normal 30 pin connection.

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    Image of deesugar deesugar
    06/23/09

    In reply to Conductive Charging Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch
    Title of this article is misleading since it seems to indicate native inductive charging like the Palm Pre.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    06/23/09

    @deesugar:


    agreed - it's not inductive charging, it's orientation-irrelevant-contact charging.

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    Image of Kayonesoft Kayonesoft
    06/23/09

    In reply to Conductive Charging Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch
    They should make an iPhone charger that charges off of pretentiousness.
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    06/23/09

    @Kayonesoft: How pretentious can you be when your product is available at WalMart?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/23/09

    @Kaiser-Homerhead: I don't know - Walmart has some nice stuff nowadays.
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    Image of jcrockerman jcrockerman
    06/23/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: If you live in a trailer park.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/23/09

    @jcrockerman: No, seriously, besides the big screen LCD TVs, you can get $10000 diamond rings and $500 bottles of wine at some WalMarts.

    [www.nytimes.com] [www.bizjournals.com]
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    06/23/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/23/09

    In reply to Conductive Charging Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch
    I heard that they managed to get the cancer incidence in users down to 43%.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    06/23/09

    In reply to Conductive Charging Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch
    Will there be one for my car, or do I have to carry this huge thing around to my office as well?
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    06/23/09

    @AllToAll,ByMyMustard!_GitEmSteveDave:Seems like overkill but I suppose they could come out with a 12' charger pad so your car battery stays fully charges in your driveway.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    06/23/09

    @Kaiser-Homerhead: You joke, but I was stuck on the side of the road b/c I was having battery problems today. Had to take the Dualie-Diesel into work today.


    Of course, getting a iPhone is the first step. I'm currently tracking down one right now from a loving home.

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    Image of Jestermeister Jestermeister
    06/23/09

    In reply to Conductive Charging Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch
    Is it really such a misery to have to stick a cable into a port? You still have to go over to the charging place. I would say this definitely doesn't justify any price.

    This sort of thing will only be cool when you charge because you are in a particular room or when you enter your house.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    06/23/09

    @Jestermeister:


    not to mention that this forces you to use the included case, precluding the use of any other protection.

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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    05/18/09

    In reply to Power Plugs of the World Map
    Get this, in the US, the code is now that the 3-prong must be so the ground is top, not bottom. No more "screaming OH" orientation.


    Just get rid of the wall warts, please.

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    Image of Pazu Pazu
    05/18/09

    In reply to Power Plugs of the World Map
    Ah great. So we can't preview our comments, nor we can edit them later. I quit.
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    Image of Pazu Pazu
    05/18/09

    In reply to Power Plugs of the World Map
    Bah, the comment cut off. Anyway... most households use a
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    05/18/09

    In reply to Power Plugs of the World Map
    They got Brazil wrong too. Here the official standard is IEC 60906-1 plugs, but most households still use
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    Image of JanDuKretijn JanDuKretijn
    05/18/09

    In reply to Power Plugs of the World Map
    I'd like to know why North America uses such chincy plugs. I never had any prongs bend when I lived in Germany.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    05/18/09

    @JanDuKretijn: Unless I'm trying to bend them, I've never had a US plug bend either. (*Not that I routinely try to bend them, it's just that those forks don't fit by themselves.)
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    Image of kylenalepa kylenalepa
    05/18/09

    In reply to Power Plugs of the World Map
    Who came up with that color scheme? Yellow, yellow-green, green, light blue, and blue? Really?


    Red, blue, green, yellow, white. Problem solved.


    That aside, it's an interesting map and it's cool to see a visualization of what countries use what types of plugs.

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    Image of iatacs19 iatacs19
    05/18/09

    In reply to Power Plugs of the World Map
    Australia and Argentina are pretty unique.
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    Image of combat chuck combat chuck
    05/18/09

    @iatacs19: I grew up in Argentina, and while it's true that they have that type of plug for grounded outlets, most places you will find the more common "double o" outlet (light green on the map, standard in mainland Europe).
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