wireless electricity soon?


	wireless electricity soon?

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8-25-2008 12:57 AM

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11-11-2008 6:49 PM

Jorjor

25 years ago, I worked at a place where 80 Mb hard drives were the size of dishwashers. Now, there's gigabytes on a card. They'll find a way to shrink the hardware. The question I have is whether anything directly between the source and the receiver is affected.

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