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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: dreamakuma on April 01, 2009, 04:24:26 pm
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/wec.shtml
Have the sending end behind your cab, reciving end safely at wall. no more unplugging to move. cool?
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Very cool.
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My guess is that it was posted on April 1.
Very much like this article on sucessful teleportation
Teleportation 5 km (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2344137,00.asp)
Enough said. ;D ;D
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I hate April 1. For someone like me who equates electricity with black magic or voodoo this seems totally plausible.
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just tried buying it....crap :banghead: :angry:. Sorry guys!
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That pretty much sums it up.
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I woulda rather had this anyway
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/tauntaun.html (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/tauntaun.html)
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But we do teleport!
As of now (well I think 10 years already) we send photons across infinite distances & I am not talking about "reflection".
Photons yo, word.
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Technology like this DOES exist but it's not available to consumers and it's also HUGELY inefficent. Like, the farther away you are from your source, the more signal you lose, in this case power, power which will end up on your electrical bill even if you just wasted it into the air.
So it is technologically doable, it's just also stupid idea except at extreme close range. Similar technology is used to recharge pace makers for example, and there's been talk of cellphone recharging docks where you basicly sit your phone on this plate and it recharges without any direct interface.
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Oh that Tesla, how he does make us laugh :laugh2:
Seriously, I WANT that tauntaun sleeping bag! That's something that should exist, I'm looking at you ETSY! Anything to prove to my nephews that Empire could whoop I,II, and III like a tow cable around an AT-ATs legs :soapbox:
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It's no less plausible than solar power, unfortunately, it's about as efficient as solar at night.
I know they've successfully transmitted 5v a few feet, but I really wouldn't want to stand between 120v...
I hate April 1. For someone like me who equates electricity with black magic or voodoo this seems totally plausible.
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I woulda rather had this anyway
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/tauntaun.html (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/tauntaun.html)
Maybe they will make it like they did with the speaker shirt. The zip is a lightsabre it's just too cool.
EDIT:
ATTN Tauntaun Fanatics! Due to an overwhelming tsunami of requests from YOU THE PEOPLE, we have decided to TRY and bring this to life. We have no clue if the suits at Lucasfilms will grant little ThinkGeek a license, nor do we know how much it would ultimately retail for. But if you are interested in ever owning one of these, click the link below and we'll try!
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I've been keeping up with the developments of this via physics journals. There are already proto-type devices that are fairly efficient. Another few years, perhaps at most, they'll be commercial, maybe even consumer level. Of course, if the 'oilers' hadn't won over in the early 20th, stuff like this would've been around already. Or something just as good. Blame your forefathers, and wait for the day time travel is available to go back and give their nut sack a yank.
By the way, I think TG posted the same thing last year. Or someone did, because I remember seeing it here.