Just remembered another minor tech hype from a few years ago when Silicon Valley douchebros wanted to sell everyone on wireless charging at a distance (like plug something into outlet and it uses magical waves to beam power to your phone and laptop)
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 12:31:30 JST Thomas 🔭✨ -
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lkngrrr (lkngrrr@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 12:36:59 JST lkngrrr @thomasfuchs They still won’t shut up about farpoint inductive charging in the industrial mobile world.
Wireless charging, “why don’t you make faster robots”, and “make a Kiva-sized Roomba” are my top 3 most irritating feature requests that I need to find the time to just write wiki pages for already.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 13:16:56 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @djg they’re magical waves because of the promises that were made and never kept
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Alexand (djg@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 13:16:57 JST Alexand They aren’t magical waves, they are microwaves just like your WiFi router and will start to cook your hot dog at around 5 watts - my iPhone fast charger is 30 watts. For reference your WiFi router is about 1/2 watt and the microwave on your countertop is 700-1100 watts.
Don’t put your appendages between the charging source and the receiver!
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 13:18:16 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @lkngrrr it’s entirely possible to do only it will cook any humans or pets who happen to walk by the charger to a crisp 😅
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Tim Ellis 🦝 (the_tim@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 13:23:08 JST Tim Ellis 🦝 -
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 13:23:08 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @The_Tim what could go wrong 😂
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 10:11:20 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @dheadshot yolo I guess
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Deadly Headshot (dheadshot@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 10:11:21 JST Deadly Headshot @thomasfuchs
I mean, you *could* do that, if you didn't mind boiling (microwaving) everything in the path of the beam...
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