New Age Technologies

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Intel on Thursday showed off a wireless electric power system that analysts say could revolutionize modern life by freeing devices from transformers and wall outlets.

Electricity was sent wirelessly to a lamp on stage, lighting a 60 watt bulb that uses more power than a typical laptop computer.

Most importantly, the electricity was transmitted without zapping anything or anyone that got between the sending and receiving units.

"The trick with wireless power is not can you do it; it’s can you do it safely and efficiently," Intel researcher Josh Smith said in an online video explaining the breakthrough.

"It turns out the human body is not affected by magnetic fields; it is affected by elective fields. So what we are doing is transmitting energy using the magnetic field not the electric field."

Examples of potential applications include airports, offices or other buildings that could be rigged to supply power to laptops, mobile telephones or other devices toted into them.

The technology could also be built into plugged in computer components, such as monitors, to enable them to broadcast power to devices left on desks or carried into rooms, according to Smith.

"Initially it eliminates chargers and eventually it eliminates batteries all together," analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group said of Intel’s wireless power system.

"That is potentially a world changing event. This is the closest we’ve had to something being commercially available in this class."

- Yahoo! News 

Technology has already penetrated the academe, industry and even the business sectors. It seems to build a culture that one could not work without it. On the good side of it, technology really helps us a lot from the simplest task of keeping records and files up to large enterprise management tools such as Databases. These daily tools make our work done faster and nevertheless, it changes our lifestyles.

If we will base in today’s context, most of the people would move on to the open source community. These tools are under the GNU General Public License and could be used by anyone for as long it will not be used for one’s gain. The cost for enterprise operating systems such as Microsoft’s Windows Versions would range from $100 - $300. Therefore, to gain such advantage and avail such technologies, you need to invest more.

With the following constraints and settings nowadays, it clearly shows that there is really a need to address these problems. One of the latest and emerging researches today is about having a WebOS (Operating System over the Web). With the use of WWW as an organized body of inter-connected large body of networks, paired with the latest programming technique implementations such as AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML),  a WebOS could really be possible and feasible.