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Nokia investigates wireless electricity

A vision of the future?

The science fiction idea of wireless electricity inched closer to fact this week as Finnish handset giant Nokia made headway in using ambient radio waves as a power source.

MIT demos wireless power

Boffins at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) this week demonstrated wireless electricity, or “a vision of the future” as they call it. A team made up of MIT’s Department of Physics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) was able to light a 60W light bulb from a [...]