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.”
A new study has identified health risks from wireless devices such as smartphones and tablets.
The results of a new study have now been released in a report that is now cautioning the users of mobile technology that the health risks may be worse than they think, and that these risks are becoming more powerful
The report said that using smartphones and tablets is not as healthy as had been thought and that immediate action is needed.
This mobile technology study was conducted by the BioInitiative Working Group, and its report was based on an analysis of the studies that have been conducted on the subject from 2012 through to this year. What they found was that the more recent studies have shown increased medical concerns regarding the increased risk of malignant brain tumors as a result of the use of cell phones.
This mobile technology analysis conflicts with other single studies that have recently been conducted.
However, this research takes several studies into account, not just one. According to Lennart Hardell, from Sweden’s Orebro University, “There is a consistent pattern of increased risk for glioma (a malignant brain tumour) and acoustic neuroma with use of mobile and cordless phones.” He also went on to point out that epidemiological evidence has suggested that radiofrequency should be considered to be a carcinogen among humans. Hardell stated that the current ICNIRP and FCC/IEEE public safety limits are not provide adequate protection for public health.
The report from BioInitiative showed that 68 percent of the studies that had been conducted on radiofrequency radiation (which means 144 studies out of the total 211) indicated that there was a connection between that tech and nervous system effects.
Moreover, within 90 percent of the 105 studies that were available in 2014, it was shown that very low frequency radiation had effects on the nervous system. In 74 out of the 114 studies (65 percent) it was shown that radiofrequency radiation could cause damage to DNA, in the extremely low frequency wireless and mobile technology studies. These devices can range from phones to tablets and are – according to the report – leading to unnecessary physical and mental stress that will gradually resilience.
