{"id":991,"date":"2007-06-08T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T18:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/f4407aa5fc0a7eaa1bffa26b18e0d1a4"},"modified":"2007-06-08T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T18:20:10","slug":"wireless-power-offers-to-cut-the-final-cord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"Wireless power offers to cut the final cord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC are reporting that the there is a potential solution for <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/6725955.stm\">wireless power<\/a><\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>Having just travelled round Sweden with numerous power adaptors, not to mention the need to keep finding a socket in different airports so I could plug in and power up, I'd welcome something that eliminated the need to tie myself to a wall. <\/p>\n<p>Of course airports, hotels and offices are an ideal place where this could be helpful. Imagine just sitting at a desk in the airport lounge and get both power and wifi.<\/p>\n<p>What's not clear from the article is whether there will be any way to control this, short of turning the units on and off. That might be a problem in terms of the companies monetizing the service, but it will still be an improvement on the current hunt-and-plug situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC are reporting that the there is a potential solution for <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/6725955.stm\">wireless power<\/a><\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>Having just travelled round Sweden with numerous power adaptors, not to mention the need to keep finding a socket in different airports so I could plug in and power up, I&#8217;d welcome something that eliminated the need to tie myself to a wall. <\/p>\n<p>Of course airports, hotels and offices are an ideal place where this could be helpful. Imagine just sitting at a desk in the airport lounge and get both power and wifi.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s not clear from the article is whether there will be any way to control this, short of turning the units on and off. That might be a problem in terms of the companies monetizing the service, but it will still be an improvement on the current hunt-and-plug situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}