New Emerging Technology

Imagine a world where you never have to worry about your phone dying or any portable device that you own running out of a battery. Well we are coming into an age of technology where we are close to a wireless way of transferring power. There is something called Qi where you use two coils a transmitter and a receiver. What this does is generate a magnetic field to where the device and the wireless generator can transfer voltage. This idea is not far away from being accomplished, the idea was initially proposed by Nikola Tesla and it was the turn of the century. We are slowly entering a world where the impossible is now possible. The Oak RidgeNational Laboratory has shown how it can be done and close we are to making it available to everyone in the world.

There are many strengths to having this technology such as the ability to not have to plug in when charging and not have to wait until its 100% so you don’t overcharge the battery. You will always be with your phone while charging so it can always be monitored. Also there could potentially be the ability to eliminate the use of outlets as a power source. We could have everything be wirelessly charged from T.V’s to blenders or really anything that has a power source we could make camping completely different to the way it is right now. As there are strengths there are also weaknesses like how much battery you have to charge and how long it will take to get to 100%. There is also the weakness of other people trying to take control of your device and having a issue of privacy. There will be many opportunities like I said before about eliminating outlets and non-electrical camping. There are also many threats. The same technology could be used to make a tethered connection with phones that aren't yours and do things that aren't just charging but roaming on other people’s phones and looking at what they are doing live.