Fulton Innovation, another member of the Wireless Power Consortium and the eventual owner of Splashpower's assets, used the show to unveil a number of products including an in-car console equipped with inductive coils that can wirelessly charge mobile devices while on the road.
Inductive research tends to draw sneers from the editors of academic journals.Inductive research tends to draw sneers from the editors of academic journalsIn this climate, AACSB's proposals to evaluate research in terms of practical relevance are likely to come up against strong opposition at the faculty level.
A modern inductive coupling like Fulton's can have an efficiency of more than 98%.With electric vehicles in mind, the consortium's battery-makers, in particular, are keen to extend the Qi standard to much higher power levels.
A variety of chemical batteries have been tried, as well as inductive recharging schemes and even plutonium power cells that convert the heat from radioactive decay into electricity.
That is probably too ambitious, but a third recent development suggests that the commercialisation of inductive charging may not be far off.In November 2008 TI announced that it had joined forces with Fulton Innovations "to accelerate development of efficient wireless power solutions".
Dr Emmott reckons that a biological computer might find it easier to cope with problems that have foxed the traditional, silicon variety for decades—such as how to recognise what it is that they see.Working with Stephen Muggleton of Imperial College, London, he is developing an "artificial scientist" that would be capable of combining inductive logic with probabilistic reasoning.
Now, better statistical tools and neuroscience are opening up the possibility that economics can become an abductive science that combines elements of deductive and inductive reasoning .The big question now is whether the tools of neuroscience will allow economics to fulfil Edgeworth's vision or, if that is too much to ask, at least to be grounded in the physical reality of the brain.
There, normally, the procedure would end.Next, however, the e-passport has to be placed over an inductive reader that provides the radio-frequency energy to power up the passive RFID so it can spit out its data.
His own investigating of which research is filtering through to the journals managers and consultants might actually read has convinced him that inductive research study which seeks to proceed without preconceptions, preferring to observe organisational behaviour and then to draw conclusions on what it finds is much more likely to be applied in the real world than any other kind.
One potential solution is Intellipipe, a telemetry system that relies on cables embedded in the pipe walls of the drill string, with inductive coupling to transmit data between pipe segments.
Your correspondent is not alone in wishing to see similar inductive couplings used to replace the various recharging units cluttering up his office.The idea of transmitting power wirelessly has been around since the 1830s when Michael Faraday introduced his celebrated law of induction.
