Wireless Electricity: Fact or Fakery?
Over the last few days, news stories have describes MIT experiments that involved successfully transmitting electricity to a light bulb without using wires. This sounds so “too good to be true” that I have to wonder if it’s a hoax. Most everyone else is calling it WiTricity.
If it’s for real, the world is in for some surprising developments.
Clearly, wireless juice would be a tremendous boon to everyone of us who’s constantly tripping over electric cords or creating vast fire hazards in the form of labyrinthine extension cord webs.
But wireless electricity transmission would find its greatest fans in the pranksters of the world, and undoubtedly with lethal results.
I can see it now–some dil with a clip board ignores my “Trespassers Will Be Cloven In Two” signs and barbed and then rings my doorbell. I hit my own buzzer, and KAZAM–440 volts right up the caller’s wazoo. And another clipboard for my collection.
Maybe we should just stop inventing stuff until the human race’s mental age breaks into two digit territory.
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