Underrated comment. lol

Apple migh do that

Don't say to Apple that

lol

Delete this before they see this

Jami Animations Yes because they won't need a Thunderbolt charging port. Simplifying the design.

Their devices can be charged with any wireless charging pads

LOL! #Winning #PCMasterRace

Merc E.Z. Your PC has wireless charging? Nice!

Supercharged having I wireless pc sucks, its basicaly the same but you need double the energy to power it up, its like celebrating for paying 20 bucks for the exact burguer you use to pay 10

There's no need for a battery at that point. There was never a need for a battery. The technology was vaulted long ago

I'd be surprised if that was the case, and if it is the case a house would need to be a Faraday cage, as would clothing, and you'd essentially be wearing a tinfoil hat at all times. The technology for truly wireless and efficient power transmission already exists, and has existed for quite a long time. The problem is that the technology is inherently incompatible with our biology due the transmission frequency in the ELF range. ELF causes a whole bunch of problems with insect/bird navigation, as well as wreaking havoc on hormones/mood regulation/Circadian rhythm/etc.

2050: *goes outside *charging*

But you still need a battery when you're in the sticks.

Disney has a room that has a pole in the middle with a current so that no phone can run out of charge in said room without even plugging the phones in

You can still buy that great technology if you buy and use a Sonim XP8 Smart Phone (Android). It's also a ruggidized industrial grade phone, with many features you can't get on name brand phones like iPhone. You can also buy extra batteries for your Sonim phone, and swap them out as needed (just like my old Blackberry phones).

Yeah, bring these back instead of this wireless shit. The only wireless thing I use and like is wifi because you can't connect ethernet to a phone and it is practically impossible.

@@_GhostMiner Belkin makes usb-c/lightning to ethernet adapters, although funnily enough people are mostly using the usb-c ones for laptops without ethernet ports.

Technically those aren't *great* since they're exposed mains of a electronic, and they have a ease of tendency to get worn out, making connections difficult or shorting out the entire device very easily by just touching metalic things. I assume that's the reason behind all devices changing to cords

​@@ybirch9735 Been seriously tempted to get a Sonim phone. If only for the durability, as im very rough on phones even though i try not to be.

Lol

Most of these devices utilize half-wave rectification (located in the usb charging plug) to save on costs.

@@interupt0 it was a joke

Whoa there, Clive.

Boom

*RECTIFIER MAN*

The charger that you already plug into the wall is inefficient.

@@TechRyze wired chargers are about 90% efficient compared to wireless charging which is realistically about 40-45% efficient.

@Jan Boreczek exactly this is wire it will likely always be inferior to transmission via wire conductors. This is currently mostly a fad of being “modern and convenient”.

@@TechRyze Except that the wireless charging part is downstream from that charger. So you need to compare wireless charging with the wire, not the charger plugged into the wall. The wire itself is virtually 100% efficient.

Yeah it’s pretty frustrating to think that apple has removed a power brick claiming to save the environment yet is pushing wireless charging which is just less efficient. One thing that’s a bit misleading in this video, a majority of wireless phone chargers run off a 5V USB connection still, not the AC from the wall. So they still include all the inefficiencies of normal charging with an extra DC to AC and AC to DC conversion. If they could use the 50Hz AC power from the wall directly to the coil on the phone you could actually charge more efficient than using the USB cable. Texas Instruments have been working on 50Hz AC chargers but the end device would have to support it.

Finally

Aliens have noticed us. We just failed to free them from Area 51

Hey that rhymes sort of

@@MoStLy1aWaKE Not this crap again.

What if the really advanced aliens learned how to solve their technical problems with better civility and culture, rather than better technology? We care a lot about how we improve our tools, but we care very little about hiw we improve our thinking; journalism, criminology, jurisprudence, and civil law have not advanced much since the 19th Century; they have only become more complex and costly, to the point that they are practiced almost exclusively by experts. Technology however, from Smartphones to Ring, is everywhere.

Jay Perrin i think I may have just died a little on the inside...

That joke is *Shockingly* bad...

Haha he said it, I just added emphasis :)

Boooo get off the stage

That joke has *potential* you know.

Super robot Knuckles wtf

Lol, the Chevy Plug! That would be awesome!

Sounds too sexual don't you think ?

Honey I'm home! *RAMS

This person is smarter than Einstein

Polymerous ferrite interfaces may become a thing as the technology develops, having the benefits of an iron-augmented field without the weight and expense of solid ferrite. My understanding tells me solid ferrite is only necessary for high-voltage or high-current applications. Also, a lot of efficiency can already be achieved through electronic optimization, which the video touched on and is only starting to emerge in the mobile device world.

​@@HuntingTarg By no means Wireless charging can be more than 60% efficient.

The cable might be 99%, but the charger itself that steps the voltage down to 5v is NOT.

@@TechRyze wireless technology is replacement for cable, not charger. Same charger is being used for both so no question here about charger's efficiency.

@@TechRyze Okay, but if you have 60% efficiency via wireless induction to start with instead of 99% of wired conduction, you still waste 39% to begin with regardless of your charger.

Nailed it bro 👌

If we have pads for charging in our cars, on buses or even on a backpack with reserve power then we might ....

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Sleep. Also I have a wireless battery. It charges, and then I can put it on my phone and charge while I’m using it

@@chrisbraid2907 there are, problem with the wireless charging devices is that they plug into a wall. So your phone is still bound to the same wire. Difference is that every time you pick yo your phone it stops charging. And with a wire it continues. I have a wireless charging pad. And i used it once. Its absolutely useless. It would only work if it worked from within a meter or 2 reach. Otherwise its completely useless

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The only time I have wireless charging is in places I enter and leave often but don’t need to pick up my phone: namely my desk and car. Otherwise, wired is better, both for charging speed and the ability to actually use your phone while plugged in.

Vehicles have them sometimes as a standard feature. Not every modern device is capable of wireless charging. Probably wont be more common for another 5 to 10 years.

For phones and small devices, its a matter of framing it in a more practical manner. The video cited that all phones being wireless would increase grid load by 23 GWh (23,000 MWh) per day. This sounds like a lot until you realize that global energy consumption is 62,500 GWh per day. Everyone using wireless smartphone chargers would be a 0.037% increase in electricity use. that is less than a 1/2500 increase. Wireless charging for cars however is an awful idea.

Real Engineering Okay

Thanks mike

Clearly we need massive EM fields close to our human bodies 24/7/365.

Stupid question. Does the wireless charger lose current, energy or whatever if there is no device being charged? (while the charger is on)

what about influence on brain of electormagnetic waves?It's huge! Especially using long distance (1-2m)wireless charging. The brain will be boiled like in microwave oven.

I have a wireless charger that charged my s9+ in 1 hour.

get a bluetooth headset.

One plus 8 pro new wireless charger is fast

Mine is 1 hour to charge and 15 hours

The wireless charger has to be connected by WIRE to a charger!

StarzzDrak agreed, in this age when resources are becoming more scares. It seem perverse that we’re going down this route. Yet another example of big business putting profit before ethics:(

of course, there's a wire, where do you think the wireless charger gets the power from? ;) But I agree if there is a need to have a cable, why just don't plug it right in the phone.

@@davidgatherer2073 I couldn’t care less if a business makes profit, good for them, good for the economy. A free market is the most efficient at utilizing scarce resources. This is simply an example of people once again being absolutely fucking stupid. This will continue to be stupid until it can beat the efficiency of wire conductors, which is improbable due to the inverse square law. This is all ironically in the age of environmentalism where governments are banning plastic straws and bags lmao. This is currently nothing more than a modern fashion statement.

@@davidgatherer2073 Agreed, if anything we should find ways to be more efficient instead of squandering it for minor conveniences.

There is one advantage and my mom currently relies on it. It will work even if you're expensive phone's charge port doesn't (she should really get it replaced but the way she works plus the whole Covid thing makes that very difficult).

Steven Utter *tips fedora*

Daan Sloots And he gave us a *Face Reveal* . 👍🖱📡💡📲♻️⚛

@AllRandomThings Actually, inductors mainly consist of copper wire spools. So its probably a zero sum game at best.

You sir, are an imbicilic dinosaur.

But then my phone won't be made of shiny glass even though I keep a case on it.

I still have phone with removable battery I have 2 batteries just remove the drained one and replace with charge one

you could get one of those battery pack phone covers to have 2x the battery

@@Bizarro69 Why, because he has preferences? How incredibly privileged must one be, to take offense at other people's choice of smartphone.

Tesla was a nutjob....

Didn’t he marry a pigeon or something? Someone correct me

@@JellybellyWaffles He tended to wounded pigeons, which probably led to that rumor

@@JellybellyWaffles he didn't marry with them but near his dead he was started hating people because they were only wanting money so he started love pigeons and making inventions for them.But he was loving a one white pigeon like his wife...

FourDollaRacing Edison was a thief

i undertstand the topics but wtf are these "kerrs" xD

those are just to cover more area so that phone/device can be placed anywhere on charging pad.

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Laziness

You don't look so bad for pushing 120

whats wrong with the accent ?

Benhard Sim he's saying it's nice

I agree with you, I have trouble with English but with his accent I don't know why but I understand

His accent is pretty grinding, but maybe that's just because I live to the North of Ireland ;)

This guy has an accent. Which means they can't be trusted. #Electroboom!

logic. use the wireless charger when you are asleep . . makes this all a moot point.

You missed the point of wireless charging. All the times you set your phone down it could be charging.

Exactly Kram. ! Esp when you are asleep. ..I assume most people do sleep right??

And of course with all that EM RADIATION everywhere from the millions of wireless chargers you are being COOKED slowly as well leading to health issues.

REA987 kartal gol gol gol

yup Qi is around 120 KHz. and they use ferrite pads In the T X and RX to shape the gap.

Megavolt Services LLC Maybe they could use some magnets to help direct the flux better like they do in brusless motors

perm mags would not really help. Infact it would add more lines of flux and * may * lead saturation however I am allwas open to a cheap test. I am more then willing to try some perm mags near and On a Q1 system.

jeabo0adhd comparing a pad to a transformer is like apples to oranges

Gonna want USB connectivity either way, so let's keep the aux

@@irok1 yeah, file transfer would be a pain, especially any kind of physical backup

I will always want a audio port even through the dongle apple won’t ever get rid of the port

This video is old, but. Can you help me understand efficiency here 5:10? what/who is the competitor?

A4WP: www.electronics-notes.com/articles/equipment-items-gadgets/wireless-battery-charging/a4wp-wireless-charging.php

Thanks

Shut the fuck up, dumbass. “Renowned university” you couldn’t be more pretentious if you wanted to be. You’re probably a high school drop out.

@@redbloodedamerican2743 lol you sound like a dropout jealous that he’s from a prestigious school, not him

I feel like it is just a waste of elctricity to display something 24/7 that won't even be seen all the time. Just buy a picture frame.

@@unliving_ball_of_gassorry I like seeing the pic of your mom and me raw dogging

One of the lowest hanging fruit is shifting car charging to off peak. Ideally dynamically based on load but even a timer would help. Although even better is if workplace and shoo parking had chargers so you can charge during the say from solar. Even more advanced that charge shifting is vehicle to grid where the grid can control current flow in both directions to help with grid stabilisation. This is being trialled currently.

JoshXII Your comment says 10 hours ago...

Trispectre Thats when it got released on Patreon 👍

Glad you enjoyed!

What about sealed batteries that would explode without DC charging.

the circuit connected to the battery on the receiver side contains a rectifier that changes the induced AC current into DC.

@@manabouttongue Yeah but the input needs to be an alternative current or a pulsating direct current.

Mistake in the narration. We only caught it after I had left Ireland for a holiday.

Real Engineering Thanks you.

You're Irish? ;) :P

You could add a notation on screen just to avert confusion. Great video though! :)

Another mistake is "unmeasurably" instead of the correct "immeasurably" in that context at 1:59 but hey, Faraday made mistakes too.

nikoladd, exactly! Not to mention, I'm not comfortable near multiple 100kW almost-omnidirectional antennas. Yes, it's non-ionising, yada-yada. Still.

According to my information, wireless charging for electric cars can reach an efficiency of 90 % . Audi developed the Audi wireless charger, this system has an efficiency of 90 % www.audi.com/en/innovation/futuredrive/wireless_charging.html This system uses a mechanic device, which lifts the coil plate up until it has 1 cm gap between the coil plate and the car. Conventional cable chargers have more than 90 % efficiency, but they also don't have 100 %.

And its not just the wireless efficiency loss, EV's still require a rectifier circuit @88% efficiency.

That's true, the System with a cable has an efficiency of about 90 %, means from 10 kWh charged from the grid you have around 9 kWh in the battery to use. The wireless charger will cut another 10 %. But that's still a very high efficiency, compared to ICE cars. The engine of a gasoline car for example has an efficiency of around 35 % at the best, but in many situations the engine runs not in the most efficient rpm, and with lot of power available and only little power really used (for example powerful engine, but low speed) the efficiency decreases to 20 % or even less. Diesels are better in this point, but no combustion engine ever reached more than 50 % efficiency, while bigger electric motors can reach more than 90 %. The motor of the Model 3 for example (a synchronous motor with permanent magnets) has one of the best efficiencies ever reached.

+Simon Maier .. well no 90% efficient transmission does not include the signal preparation or received power management. So it's at best 90% to the transmitter, then 90% to the receiver then multiple frequency rectification let's be optimistic and say 90% again... so it's 0.9^3= 0.73% of the power reaching the battery charger. So even in your sci-fi version it's losing at least a quarter of the power. It's a big amount of power when it comes to cars. My point was not that EV's are bad, quite the contrary. My point was that a workable wireless for cars has a lot of problems to solve.

For cars it would be enough when two pins pop out of the ground to charge it

@@bekr3473 Tesla had something similar to that 8 years ago, but decided not to use it.

You and all of your upvoters get the award for lacking the comprehension of scale. Mobile phone's growing data usage and the corresponding charging is incredibly wasteful and unnecessarily indulgent. My LiFePO 4 battery can jumpstart a V-8 engine 22 times (advertised as 25, I tested it) before needing a recharge but will only charge my Galaxy 10 phone 1& 1/2 times from 10% to 100%. Hypocritically scream and rant about excessive carbon footprint yet using far more than necessary without a second thought. Narcissistic wankers the whole lot.

Engineers should have to get English degrees if they want to be engineers just so that they don’t have to learn MMA.

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or just a two prong thingy that robot mowers use that is flexible.

Car charging is free in the UK, so you wouldn't even need a reader.

"Same convenince"

I have a better idea. A folded arm plugs itself in the bottom of the car and bills you by some sort of ID your battery is registered too or something like that. It would be way less expensive and for those who will say that you'd need to park perfectly just have it scan for the plug and move on over and plug itself in

I was thinking the same thing. In both cases the user (car driver) has to do nothing, which is the key point. I see no big hurdles. Heck, even our vacuum cleaners can already do this. It would require relatively little engineering. Only standardization.

Fuk das trippy

Omg I just thought that too. Aber "drahtloses laden" hat mich echt zum lachen gebracht

@@noel.friedrich xD

Ist echt so... If somebody knows how to turn this setting off, it'd be appreciated

@@neosabien6998 klick auf deinen Avatar. Sprachauswahl ist unter Dark Theme und über Settings :)

Matty L same but with russian:(

tonydaletony did you spell Tesla wrong on purpose? Big booty latinas are one of my favorite tho

Nikola Tesla is ❤

most pads seem pretty useless. wireless charging in a dock would probably be a lot more useful since you could use your phone at the same time. if its just a flat pad on the table then you cant really do much with it

biggest cone is the lack of effiency. you dont want to spend 200%(in watt/resources) more as an over all solution. its neat and nice to charge the phone this way. but a car or bus....... overoptimistic "green" people.

thanks for the feedback Sekou

I use it because its really fast and my phones port broke

Yeah a attachable batterypack that doubles as a phone case seems more useful

Samsung phones? Yeah that happened to me too

Wrong lol

this channel is full of bs

Idiot run car or truck is 10cent to 30cent per mile. Electric car is 1 cent. Also no oil change/coolant/all the good stuff

Yeah, this channel seems to have slipped a fair bit in the last two years . Hope he doesn't go the way of Thuderf00t. Which would be ironic since the guy hates Thunderf00t.

I mean, I only pay like $50/month for power as is, so if you drive a lot it's probably fine

Every modern electric device has protection to overcharging. He wouldn't die.

Anodyne Melody from what I know of pacemakers there is no battery

He will become John Travolta

@@garrettwright4337 There must be batteries, how else you think it is gonna beat your heart if it stops?

Yeah, of course there's a battery! Once installed the pacemaker is in a relatively easy place to access as the battery needs to be changed every 10-18yrs depending on how active the person is. Those car chargers don't really affect people because they're not always on, however metal detectors can have an affect on pacemakers. That's why they need to be wanded seperately.

C is rated to 15 watts. The latest Rev to the QI3 standard can do more then 12W . having both is a WIN WIN. Its not like the added guts to put

I dont think the efficiency is the main thing with wireless charging. I think its made to be convenient, it would be really nice to eventually just be in a room and have it charge my phone in my pocket.

I am fully aware. I am HUGE advocate for USB-C with PD3 . how does that massive current dump day by day effect batt cell lifespan any EE worth there salt knows dump charging is not good for long term lifespan. I advocate for QI as a baseline . Its fast enough to charge any phone and most tablets overnight at a 1-2 amp rate . Yall are getting 8 H of sleep right? provided you can get a day out of a charge then who cares If at night in your 8H of sleep your phone takes 3H vs 1.5 h... does that matter. VS Weigh in the wear you put on your USB jack . Is it cost effective to replace a $800 phone over a loss in % eff in charge rate. what is the envro damage of a useless bricked phone due to a ripped plug Vs the extra power needed to make up for driving a 90% eff QI charger. does any one weigh this as math. ???? The power to refine the silicon to make the chips. the power to machine or Injection mold a case . power to reflow the solder on to a PCB that takes power to cut ! Now lets talk disposal of the now useless phone and its effect on a landfill and last but not least the biz cost If I have to take time to buy a new phone and then take a day to Xfer the apps and get * settled in * how much is your time worth lets say the loss of lossy QI charge means over a year you pay $16 more in power. ( $16 buys a TON of kWH by the way! ) If I take time off of my day to buy a new phone . see my point.

I have an LG v20, whose USB C charging is pretty darn fast. However, its battery is removable, as batteries used to be, and should be today if not for greedy phone manufacturers and planned obsolescence. My v20 goes from dead flat to 100% charge in under a minute. No charging technology can ever beat that.

Goldenman Yeah, and slowly over time such rooms would cook your gonads. A variation on it sterilized my brother after 15 years in the field.

believe it or not, google/internet services tracks what you do to show you things that they think will interest you!

Just got funding for hydrogen doc. Will be starting production on it soon

Real Engineering Amazing! I can’t wait!

Hydrogen batteries are amazing with the only waste product being water however there is one major problem. The means to obtain Hydrogen would be less clean for the enviroment then gasoline would. It within itself would be great but we dont have a whole lot of means to get hydrogen efficiently and cleanly.

+Tired Poison true

Yeah, I’ve been doing some reading and it really boils down to the economics of producing hydrogen and how far we’d need to go to make it viable. from what I see, if you’re producing hydrogen via electrolysis you’re better off just putting that electricity straight into the car.

this. these people who are going on about all these public charge options arent really thinking about practically applying these ideas in a world where free public utilities are always very poorly maintained (or even vandalized) and using them is risky at best. and honestly, do people really think they might one day be able to charge their battery while sitting at a red light? like, oh yeah, just because we can now charge things wirelessly, the city is just gonna start handing out free power at redlights. pure fantasy.

Speedj2 no one expects it to be free. You'd pay for the power the same way you pay for everything that anti-government people try to pretend anyone thinks is actually free - with taxes. Like the taxes you pay when you buy a car, or register a car, or pay your electric bill, and so on and so on. Those roads everyone is driving on today? When is the last time you wrote a check to have it resurfaced or chip sealed? Never. Are they free then? No. They're paid for with taxes just like everything public. Only a moron would pretend anyone thinks this would be any different. Come back and join everyone in the real world.

yep

I'm just wondering which one the data is actually from.

Yes. That's it, I want my money back.

This channel is OBSESSED with Tesla. They bring it up whenever they can. A company with an egomaniacal sociopath snake oil salesman who tries to rebadge inventions of others as his own.

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Kadoc Great joke there xD 100/10

Kadoc i wonder if youve skipped english class

troll gaming IL Oh you know, when English is not your first language ;)

Kadoc no shit sherlock

troll gaming IL why are you being such a douche?

Not really, since cars aren't big enough for that to be useful. There's a limited amount of energy the sun can irradiate per surface area (even on a sunny day), and solar panels can only extract a certain percentatge of that energy (usually 30-40%). The area of the roof of a car is too small to make a difference in battery consumption. There are also further problems like wheight, complexity, exterior desing, etc. The same goes for extracting energy from the asphalt, except that it's even harder and less efficient.

because of the losses involved. wasteful.

You can't create energy with heat, even though heat is energy. To produce usable energy, you need a heat DIFFERENCE. The energy you can use is relative to the differential between the hot and the cold. Cars do get hot and so does asphalt, but only when everything around them is also hot. That makes it not a viable energy source.

Douglas exactly. A bigger device optimized battery that can last 3+ days makes more sense. Most companies just choose not to put large batteries in phones when they easily could. iPhones use like 2700 mAh now. I can’t imagine how much longer a 4000 mAh battery optimized in an iPhone would last. Easily 3 days when a 2700 will easily last 1 day.

Since they've made both kinds over the years and the market has chosen slim phones, I'm gonna go with slim phones as the correct answer here.

@@babybirdhome actually, good phones with a bug battery have only or at least more been made in the recent time, they just have to be adapted by the consumer more, and I believe that will happen. I think it's just that there were other problems before, such as enough memory for example.

i prefer a thicker phone with a better battery than one i am afraid to even handle bcs is so thin

Some of us want to buy tech, not fashion.

The efficiency loss measured in that study was only that of the wireless transmission device, not how well it charged off of that. In this case the efficiency of a "traditional charger" (copper touching copper) would be basically 100% comparatively. The efficiency of how well the charge circuit say on the phone accepts power from either device would be the same.

Mike Davidson Thanks! That's the kind of info i wanted.

conventional chargers are between 70 to 80%. Some good brands reach just over 80.

Nipuna Gunarathne that’s the efficiency of the charging circuit, not the wire itself. This circuit would have to be on the wireless charger as well.

Woo 991 the loss in the wire is negligible. Around 1%. Which means 99% efficiency. I did the calculations. Besides. That's a biased way to do the comparison. It gives the wrong idea. It's like saying "car A does more miles per gallon than car B" but it turns out you have to run car A with the AC on because it gets hotter inside than car B which makes the mpg gain null and void.

you can charge your car wirelessly and lose 10% of energy or you can use 0.1% of the energy for a robot arm that searches a charger and plugs itself in when you park your car or u can plug your car in manually and waste no energy I wouldn't choose wireless charging even if it were only 1% energy loss, unless all energy was provided by solar power, wind power and hydropower, but we're a long way from using 100% renewable energy

That's just as easily solved by having charging pins instead of a plug.

You can get magnetic plugs, where you leave the small part in the phone all the time.

"I wore out my USB port" You broke your USB by placing lateral strain on the connector or possibly with imprecise plugging and unplugging... not because you were charging it while it was plugged in. A better way to solve that would be to improve the connector.

"A better way to solve that would be to improve the connector..." ...or tell the people how to properly use this incredible complcated thing called connector.

we need both, there is no reason to use mini usb at this point cport is the best option since its idiot proof, the end user will ALWAYS fuck things up somehow. so use a better connector AND make it harder idiots to brake it, win win

coolal19 No effects have been measured.

And that there aren't any?

You seem to misunderstand the difference between wireless information and wireless power. Wireless information transmission only uses enough power to make a readable signal, so it's power is low enough to have little to no effect on the human body. Wireless power transmission is used for the explicit purpose of transferring power, so it's much more powerful, and may even have a noticeable effect on the human body. Also, wireless power transmission has enough power to cause heat in the powered device. The human body isn't the best conductor, but it is a conductor, so proximity to a powerful charger can have adverse health effects. Not to mention any mechanical implant or prosthetic.

If Cornell University is a trusted source: arxiv.org/abs/0904.1198 "These resonance electric currents may cause necrotic changes in the tissues or blood circulation and in this way significantly affect the biological organism." And if 78 Steps Health is a trusted source (though not peer reviewed, from the look of it): www.78stepshealth.us/magnetic-fields/info-lcd.html "Those students who used only their natural ''magnetic sense'' had a higher success rate than those whose ''magnetic sense'' had been deceived by the field of a magnet attached to their heads (Baker, 1989)." And I am not limited to wireless phone chargers, as this video did point out wireless car chargers, and I said "wireless power transmission" not "wireless phone chargers". So use of more powerful magnets is relevant. Power transmission actively pursues more power, which information transmission does not.

don s Time and time again, you are forced to go with an "educated gut feeling" until the science is out. And by out, this might take decades or more. So it is not silly to have a critical mind of new technologies. Working on a cautionary hypothesis is a reasonable way of avoiding not certain, but potential danger. I am still all about cables. If I had the money to build a house, I would make cabled data transfer the norm in the house. A lot of people seem to focus only on "will this definitely give you cancer or not?" whereas there could be lesser effects that to some people are things to consider. Such as ambient noise, restlessness, headaches and so on, are these in any way affected by the increase of electromagnetic fields? They might not kill you, but they are things that affect quality of life. What I am always noticing is that the last thing engineers/scientists want to hear is someone on the other side of the fence telling them your technology is not 'humane' enough. I think it's to do with complete segregation between science and humanities ever since in the industrial revolution. Now we either have peace loving stoned hippies, or robots.