RCA's Airnergy Wi-Fi Powered Charger
The RCA electronics company is currently working on a device that pulls energy from a wireless hotspot, converts the energy into a DC current, which then charges the battery of this new device, which can later plug into your phone and charge it. This new revolutionary device is called the Airnergy, new from RCA.
Ironically, this concept is not new by any means, formally an idea of Tesla who was an inventor from the mid to late 1800’s to early 1900’s, but RCA has finally come up with a marketable product.
Although this product is amazing in thought, will it perform? RCA claims that the new Airnergy can charge 30% of a phones battery in roughly 90 minutes. This is not something that will replace your standard phone charger, yet. May mathematicians who have crunched the numbers are skeptical of this new device, some believe it will take years to charge a lap top, and maybe so, but I am extremely excited that we as a society are finally coming up with ways to harness energy that already exist! Who knows, maybe someday soon we will be able to charge our electric cars from the energy with the air that surrounds us! RCA claims that the rate at which the Airnergy can charge a battery largely depends upon how close you are to the hotspot deice, closer to the hotspot, the faster the charge.
I believe this new technology will be great for the average cell phone user. For example, take a UNC Charlotte student. Student X is on their phone for a majority of the day talking, texting, web browsing, and playing games. At the end of the day he or she is in the middle of an important phone conversation when the phone alerts them of a low battery. He or she can pull their Airnergy out of their pocket, plug it into their phone and then continue talking without being worried about a dead battery. Chances are the student will be able to talk for hours because their Airnergy is fully charged from being around Wi-Fi while they were in their dorm, in class, in the library, and while (s)he was having dinner at Crown Commons in the new student union!
This new device may not be the solution to all of our charging problems, but I believe it’s a stepping stone for what’s to come. And if it is truly going to be sold at around the $40 mark, I might have to buy one just to try it for myself!
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