Penn Grads “Charge” Forward
Recent College grads Meredith Perry ’11 and Nora Dweck ’11 have paired up to create the uBeam, a handy dandy gadget that remotely and wirelessly charges all of your electronic devices without having to plug them in.
Perry, the brains behind the technology, explains in layman’s terms how the uBeam works using ultrasound frequencies and then demonstrates the wireless magic. Dweck delineates the business aspect, expressing her hope that one day uBeam charge stations will be available just like WiFi. “Starbucks, if you’re out there, we’d like to partner with you!” Spoken like a true Penn student.
Engineering: 1 million. Wharton: 1 million. College: 1.
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By the tallies on June 3, 2011 at 12:06 pm
hahahahaha
Wireless charging was done years ago with magnetism (ie your toothbrush) and more recently was improved for long-distance magnetic battery charging.
What are the benefits of ultrasound? Does it not heat up metal? What’s the range? % of electricity consumed that is actually transmitted? Just curious.
Oh man, as if we weren’t already getting cancer from our cellphones… let’s just shoot ultrasound at ourselves until our bones shatter. Because you really couldn’t take the time to plug your goddamn phone in.
Way to go college! Sound doesn’t give you cancer.
HELL YEAH FOR THE COLLEGE! and we didn’t even have to sell our souls to get a degree
go meredith and nora!!! you kick ass!!!!
woohoo yay bloomers!