Will electric vehicles someday be charged as they roll down the highway? Dynamic wireless charging—charging a vehicle as it travels down a specially-equipped road—is still in the research stage, but ...

Nikola Tesla envisioned supplying power to the world without the need for a tangle of wires strung everywhere. The closest he ever came to realizing wireless transmission was the Tesla coil, which he ...

Intellectual Ventures’ Russell Hannigan explains how a metamaterials-based reflector array antenna can focus a microwave beam on a power receiver. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) BELLEVUE, Wash. – ...

Time and again modern wars have proven you can't really fight battles without having access to energy. Whereas until the advent of the last century all armies had to worry about was food, shelter, and ...

Moreover, energy harvesting devices are available to convert the mechanical energy (due to vibration) and thermal energy (due to heat) given off by electric motors. This converted energy, with the ...

Recharging your laptop computer, your cell phone and a variety of other gadgets may one day be as convenient as surfing the web -- wirelessly. Marin Soljacic, an assistant professor in MIT's ...

NEW YORK, July 15, 2012 — Tesla. He’s not in most history books. You didn’t hear about him growing up as a kid. He was super and a hero, but they didn’t make superhero comic books about him. Most ...