Our patent office never fails to disgust me.. This is ludicrous. Prior art dating back to Tesla and Hertz. On 6/15/07, Paul Hutchinson wrote: > I looked for more info on this apparently silly thesis and found some. > > The student is named in this patent application (http://tinyurl.com/2kd9eo). > > This along with other power harvesting tech from University of Pittsburgh > got venture capital (http://tinyurl.com/2m63gy) to form Firefly Power > Technologies, which was renamed to Powercast LLC > (http://www.powercastco.com). The technology was demonstrated at CES > (http://www.wirelessnetdesignline.com/news/196902483). They even won a CNET > best of CES award. > > Some more info and links are at these sites: > > http://www.docbug.com/blog/archives/000730.html > > http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2007/04/wireless-power.html > > I'd investigate further but since their ideas are locked down by the patent > system I'm not going to bother. > > Paul > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu On Behalf Of Mark Rages > > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 5:52 PM > > > > On 6/14/07, David VanHorn wrote: > > > > > > Am I nuts, or is this really as badly done as I think it is? > > > > It's awful. > > > > Here's a direct link to the pdf: http://tinyurl.com/2kf3km > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist