Jun 8, 2007, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Sapientwolf
I read something about this sometime last year, same MIT project, so old news to me. But, from the article I read (which covered it in pretty good detail) seemed like a really good design. The design uses electromagnetic induction, however it's not in the same sense as you charge an electric toothbrush, instead of using a magnetic field at close proximity to get the electrons moving, electromagnetic resonance is used, and from the article I read it was a radio class wavelength/frequency. So I wouldn't worry about the extra radiation around, I would worry about wearing jewelry or other metal objects that would resonate at that same EM frequency  .
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yea, this is that same group and they finally made it work. last report they were still testing it out.
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