WiTricity: MIT manages to transmit energy wirelessly

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have managed to do something extraordinary. They have managed to glow a 60-watt light bulb by delivering it electricity wirelessly.

This is stuff from the movies… Something associated with Nikola Tesla. This could potentially result in developments which would see us powering mobile devices wirelessly!

This achievement was disclosed in Science Express which is an online publication of the journal Science. They are calling this fascinating technology WiTricity.

MIT physics professor Marin Soljacic was the brain behind this feat. He spoke about the experiment: “It was quite exciting.” He added that the entire process is easily reproducible adding: “We can just go to the lab and do it whenever we want.”

However, the technique used in this experiment is just around 40 percent to 45 percent efficient. Researchers say that the process would have to become a lot more efficient to make it usable in real world scenarios.