A new system has now been tested for charging 40 mobile phones from a distance of up to 15 feet.
Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology are now making important technology news with a mobile phone charging system that has already been used for charging equipment at a nuclear power plant.
While wireless chargers are nothing new for the majority of mobile users, this invention adds a new level.
The typical wireless charger isn’t making technology news anymore because they’re found in a large number of homes and businesses in the form of a pad that can charge devices that are resting on top of it. However, the next generation of these gadgets will be able to charge mobile devices from halfway across a good sized room without ever having to rest the smartphones or tablets down or having to plug them in.
The latest technology news that has to do with chargers can power up several gadgets from 15 feet away.
At the moment, this mobile device consists of a coil filled box that is nine feet long and that uses a magnetic field to charge up to 40 rechargeable gadgets, wirelessly, up to a distance of 15 feet away. The team officially launched the system last week, but it was tested out in the real world back in March, when it was used for charging nuclear power plant equipment.
The charger, called the DCRS device, is not the first time that wireless charging over distances has been attempted. A wireless power platform called Cota is sit to hit the commercial market next year and it will be able to charge devices within a distance of 30 feet. However, the difference that the DCRS has to offer is that it has a lot of power to offer, charging up to 40 mobile devices at once, or even powering larger devices such as televisions.
According to the leader of the team, Chun Rim, in a technology news release, “Just like we see Wi-Fi zones everywhere today, we will eventually have many Wi-Power zones at such places as restaurants and streets that provide electric power wirelessly to electronic devices.”
The chipmaker has announced that it would be altering its reporting structure for a better reflection of the tech.
Intel Corp., the chipmaker giant, has now announced that it is changing the structure of its financial reporting so that it will provide a more accurate reflection of two primary areas, which are mobile gadgets and the growing field of interconnected electronic devices.
Starting with the company’s first quarter report, which was released April 15, a new revenues group was created.
Within that report, it provided Internet of Things Group category revenues. This was recently created and concentrates on the growing trend of linking everything from the ventilation systems in high rises to an individual’s bathroom scale. This focus on mobile gadgets and devices will be found within the brand new segment: Mobile and Communications.
The revenue from mobile gadgets such as chips for phones and tablets used to be under Other Intel Architecture.
Furthermore, the results from the company’s set-top box and gateway business will now be worked into the PC Client Group, instead of having also been tucked into the Other Intel Architecture category, said the chipmaker. When it comes to the segment called Data Center, it will now be including the results from the communications infrastructure, which had, like the others, previously been shuffled into the Other Intel Architecture category.
The Internet of Things Group is not actually something that just came to be. In fact, it was created in 2013 as a combination of the business from Intel that was focused on chips for industrial and commercial devices with Wind River. That subsidiary sells industrial and commercial device software.
The largest segment of the revenue at Intel is found within the PC Client Group. It will now also include the results that are brought in from the set top box and the gateway business.
The release of the first quarter report includes the retrospective results for each of the updated business segments from mobile gadgets to commercial and industrial devices, and everything in between. This is a notable shift in the way that the company has identified its priorities and has clearly shown the direction that it feels the electronics industry is taking.
