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You move around a lot, and so does your mobile phone. If you live in an urban centre, like Vancouver, you probably use a bus, or maybe even a Skytrain to get where you need to go. But what do all these things have in common?

By using power created when a bus stops, we could generate wireless electricity, charging all the cell phones within that bus. This would get rid of the need to charge your phone at home, and stop cell users from leaving their chargers plugged into the wall and wasting electricity when not in use.

It's been long known that keeping your wireless devices plugged into the wall when not in use eats up electricity -- kind of like when you leave a light on in an empty room. In fact, 75% of the energy in your home right now is probably being wasted by these devices. One of those devices is your cell phone charger.

A cell phone charger is not only a daily annoyance, but a big energy problem. Let's get rid of it. And let's plan to unplug all our devices that are wasting electricity.

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Still baffled? Watch this demo of wireless technology to get an idea of what this will look like:
http://bit.ly/13f38u

Want more information on how regenerative braking works? Toyota has a good video demoing their version of the technology here:
http://bit.ly/e22ab2

Conserve energy, by using renewable energy and technology that already exists -- all in new ways. Simple? Simple.

Works Cited:
http://bit.ly/cm2gXC
http://bit.ly/9MNLAJ
http://bit.ly/fK1bsm
http://www.statscan.gc.ca/

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Find out how we created this video at http://www.dbfilms.ca/invent-the-future-2010

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[TheUniqueGamer]

wireless electricity? how does that work? :D

[DevynBrugge]

@TheUniqueGamer Take a look at the link at the end of the video (or check the description) for a TED demo

[MultiModalLife]

Great idea, and great video! It would be interesting to see how easy it would be to retrofit existing diesel buses with regenerative breaking. And I suppose this would also require all cell phones to be equipped with receivers for wireless power, which is currently not the case.

[DevynBrugge]

@MultiModalLife Check out the end of the video for a demo on wireless electricity. You're absolutely right, new inventions and changes in industry would have to take place before our idea could ever become a reality, but charging cell phones with wireless energy will happen. The problem is, wireless energy is wasteful, you expel too much into the surrounding environment -- unless you use energy from green sources like braking buses or solar panes on your windowsill -- but it's a solution.

[geoffrider]

Can you provide me with the stats for the 10% of people that unplug their cell phones would power Victoria and N Vancouver. All cell phone users in BC, Canada, the US, World? It also seems the 75% waste by devices is inaccurate. Is that when one is not having their TV or stove on. Because Vampire loads only draw around 5-10% total, so it seems your stats are inaccurate or misleading. Can you help explain your values?

[DevynBrugge]

@geoffrider The description of the video has the works we cited to get our facts. The vampire loads facts we're from a study by the US Department of Energy, and we used European homes as a comparison to our homes, using Stats Canada to find how many dwelling units would equate to how many homes we could power. That stat references all cell phone users in the world in 2006, which is likely to be a lot more than now, even so we felt that it made a point. Energy can be found in unknown places.

[TheUniqueGamer]

@DevynBrugge i thought if induction if its called so in english, but i dont think it works over meeter .. iÄll just look @ those videos :D

[MultiModalLife]

Great idea, and great video! It would be interesting to see how easy it would be to retrofit existing diesel buses with regenerative breaking.

[Shortz]

nice message :)