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    WildCharge PowerDisc Lets You Charge Wirelessly With an Extra Wire

    Conductive Charging Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch

    Lightning Review: TouchCharge Wireless Charger For PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii Controllers

    Psyclone TouchCharge Kit Energizes Xbox 360 Controllers Wirelessly

    Intel Says They've Taken A Huge Leap in Wireless Power Tech

    WildCharge Releases iPhone, iPod, BlackBerry Pearl/8800 Wireless Charging Adapters

    Splashpower Charger Lets You Charge Wirelessly, Lose That Wired Mess

    Wireless WildCharger for RAZR and iPod Nano Coming This Month

    Wireless Gadget Charging Makes World Debut July 9

    Wild Charge Hands-On: Really Does Charge Wirelessly
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    Image of zeroprime: #zeroprimeowns zeroprime: #zeroprimeowns
    08/06/09

    In reply to WildCharge PowerDisc Lets You Charge Wirelessly With an Extra Wire
    This is actually a great "bridging" device. It let's people move into this segment of the market before all of their gadgets support this method. How else can they encourage manufacturers to include this charging technology in their gadgets without an install base that has an incentive to buy those gadgets? This helps circumvent the catch-22 of introducing a new technology to the market that depends upon adoption on both the producer's and user's end.
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    08/06/09

    In reply to WildCharge PowerDisc Lets You Charge Wirelessly With an Extra Wire
    A LOT of people had to approve this. Then a lot of people had to design it. Then a lot of people had to manufacture it.
    Are you telling me that along the way nobody said "Gee, this doesn't seem like such a great idea?"
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    Image of Jack Wants a GT-R Jack Wants a GT-R
    08/06/09

    In reply to WildCharge PowerDisc Lets You Charge Wirelessly With an Extra Wire
    I hope this irradiates everyone who buys one...
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    08/06/09

    @Jack Wants a GT-R: and it should make them sterile, therefore protecting the human race from extinction.
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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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    06/23/09

    @nutbastard:


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

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    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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    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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    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_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    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_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    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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    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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    11/27/08

    In reply to Lightning Review: TouchCharge Wireless Charger For PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii Controllers
    Chen, it's Thanksgiving. Have some hot cider, help Momzers in the kitchen, make a festive centerpiece a la Martha Stewart. Just don't blog.


    Unless you set this post to publish now and are, in fact, doing a Turkey Day-like activity. In which case, I present you with the "Scroogie", awarded to whomever best embodies Scrooge McDuck's philosophy of working smarter, not working harder.


    Happy Thanksgiving from Mom's House

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    11/27/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: But Ponies..... we are here reading instead of helping in the kitchen. What would we be reading if not for Jason?
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    11/27/08

    In reply to Lightning Review: TouchCharge Wireless Charger For PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii Controllers
    ll hv t sy s....


    Pns....

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    11/27/08

    @GrantH: You are what you eat.
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    11/27/08

    In reply to Lightning Review: TouchCharge Wireless Charger For PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii Controllers
    Hey, it's Thanksgiving! Aren't you hardworking bloggers gonna take the day off?
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    11/27/08

    @I work as a meth lab technician: Of course, we are encouraging this naughty behavior by visiting Giz on Thanksgiving day, so it is hard to know who is the naughtiest. We should have a poll and decide which of our buddies at Giz should get the day off today. Everyone else needs to work those fingers to the bone.
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    11/01/08

    In reply to Psyclone TouchCharge Kit Energizes Xbox 360 Controllers Wirelessly
    this post makes me love the ps3 'charge on any usb' feature that much more.... when my controllers start flashing... i just hook them up to the laptop sitting near me... no need to sit within 5' of the console...
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