Slow light: Dynamic photon storage

Slow light: Dynamic photon storage

Light has been the workhorse of modern telecommunications since the invention of fibre optics. The ever-increasing demand to be able to transmit information not only over the large distances between continents but increasingly over the much smaller distances such as...
WiTricity could get cords from under foot

WiTricity could get cords from under foot

Unless it’s your smoke alarm saving your life, mysterious electronic beeping in the middle of the night is highly annoying. It certainly annoyed Marin Soljacic a few years ago when he found himself standing in his kitchen in his pajamas in the middle of the night for...
WiTricity could get cords from under foot

MIT unveils wireless-power device

A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lit a 60-watt light bulb from a power source two metres away and with no physical connections between the source and the appliance. «more» Related Links: MIT unveils wireless-power device Prof....