Ugh!!'s Greymatter Honeypot » BBC http://www.u-g-h.com Distracting the Mind with Information Overload Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:39:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Wireless Energy http://www.u-g-h.com/2007/06/08/wireless-energy/ http://www.u-g-h.com/2007/06/08/wireless-energy/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:32:13 +0000 Owen http://www.u-g-h.com/index.php/2007/06/08/wireless-energy/ Here’s the coolest thing I’ve heard in a long time. According to an article on the BBC, US researchers are working on a system to transfer power without the need of wires. WiTricity (as this new system has been coined) using the principle of low-frequency electromagnetic resonance to transfer energy from a charging device to one that needs power. And because the resonance is predominantly magnetic, it’s perfectly safe to organic tissue and can be deployed anywhere it is needed (though some people still wonder about whether it will be a health risk). The technology is still in it’s infancy, so you wouldn’t use it to power your laptop yet, however the demonstration the BBC article talks about proves it’s a viable alternative to wired power.

This is an interesting idea following on from my post yesterday about iPhonomics, a concept that states our use of technology is bounded by the power capabilities of the device we are using. If wireless energy is possible, I predict that after the initial pain and cost of implementing this, charging your devices will become ubiquitous and one day, people will still thinking about it; in the same way we stop thinking about how strong our mobile signal is. We’ll just expect it to be there.

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]]> http://www.u-g-h.com/2007/06/08/wireless-energy/feed/ 4 The power behind LucasFilm http://www.u-g-h.com/2007/04/24/the-power-behind-lucasfilm/ http://www.u-g-h.com/2007/04/24/the-power-behind-lucasfilm/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:33:04 +0000 Owen http://www.u-g-h.com/index.php/2007/04/24/the-power-behind-lucasfilm/ Excellent article on the computing power that drives LucasFilm. It goes into detail of all the hardware, storage and networks they use. Apparently when it was built in 2004, it was the world’s largest 10-gigabit backbone network in the world and today boasts more than 250 terabytes of storage. The other amazing thing is that they go through a technology refresh every year which must be a significant investment by anyone’s terms. Great stuff. Read it here

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