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What I'd like to see in the future iPod
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Salt Lake City, UT USA
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I was reminded of this thing when I was fumbling with my charging plug for my phone:
Splashpower to ship new wireless chargers
And I thought "Man, Apple ought to just make an iPod that had a charging pad like that... but what about song transfers..."
It took my brain half a second to say "Duh, wireless." You could even build the wireless transfer into the pad.
I would leave the data ports for connection to other things, but part of me says make the whole thing smooth, no ports except headphones. (maybe a BT headset would eliminate that too...)
What'dya think?
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Sounds impressive, but I'd like to see the technology in action because it appears to be too good to be true. Now, if you're going to go wireless for everything except headphones (charging and data transfer), why not go the last step to wireless headphones as well?
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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How the heck does that work ? Wireless electricity ? Correct voltage ? How does it send it to the phones electrical pins where your normally plug in the charger ?
I call BS.
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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No no, not BS at all. It's very simple.
Induction charging. There's a coil in the pad and a coil in the phone. The AC voltage applied to the pad coil induces a magnetic flux which in turn induces an AC voltage in the phone coil. It's as if you had cut a transformer in two. There are many electric toothbrushes that work like that too since it's convenient and people rather not have open electric leads close to water.
I doubt however that it's a very quick way to charge a device with a fairly high capacity battery like the iPod. And I don't know how much the iPod's internal HD would like that magnetic field either - I'm not sure about that.
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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never happen, the added size to achive the mutual inductance is many many times bigger then the current internal regulator connected to the battery.
the only reason it works for tooth brushes is that the motor is small and you need sometihng to grip on to.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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If it's never going to happen, then why has that company (splashpower) been marketing their product? (I know, it could be vaporware, But it sounds like they've at least tried the thing.) If A phone can do it, an iPod could do it too.
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Like the charging/transfer idea. But only if size of the ipod didnt increase. Bluetooth headphones would definatly put me off!!!!!
Id rather have a big widescreen!!!!!!!!!
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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I like it but think about a wifi/BT headset will eat more power...
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