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Towards a wireless world, courtesy Intel

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BANGALORE,INDIA: World’s largest chipmaker Intel is working on a technology that would bring the consumer electronics industry a step closer to a wireless world.

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According to the New York Times, the chipmaker has progressed in making this technology, which would lead to wireless recharging of gadgets and power-cord spaghetti behind electronic devices.

With this technology a person can place a device on a desktop or countertop to power it. On Thursday, Intel demonstrated the use of a magnetic field to broadcast up to 60 watts of power two to three feet, with a power loss of 25 per cent in transmission.

"Something like this technology could be embedded in tables and work surfaces," said Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, "so as soon as you put down an appropriately equipped device it would immediately begin drawing power."

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“The research project, which is being led by Joshua Smith, an Intel researcher at a company laboratory in Seattle, builds on the work of Marin Soljacic, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who pioneered the idea of wirelessly transmitting power using resonant magnetic fields,” the report said.

The Intel researchers said they were thinking about designing a system that would make it possible to recharge a laptop computer without wires.

They said that Intel could produce a prototype design and that it might contribute to products by developing chip sets for manufacturers.

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