CES 2010: Airnergy WiFi Harvesting Charger

Charger that harvests energy from WiFi signals, to be released by RCA summer 2010 for $40. Read more at http://www.ohgizmo.com/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• OhGizmo
• Audiovox
• RCA
• Airnergy
• WiFi
• harvesting
• charger

[EEVblog]

My video blog response to the Airnergy:

watch?v=P8s3Xjeg0sk

[KralTube2]

I wonder how many people will fall for this.

[morrowindbalmora]

Stop telling us lies, you bitch

[PirateRadioPoland]

Harvesting energy from fart pressure is more serious than that...

[mantaz111]

Harvest energy form you fuckin' brain signals.

[Zed1967]

Inverse square law. Come on in!

[darthwinst]

Am I the only one that noticed the doubletalk here? They ask how long it takes to charge and he says it depends on proximity to WiFi... then he quickly says he used it to charge a Blackberry in 90 minutes. But the question was obviously not how long it takes the unit to charge a phone, but how long it takes to charge the "internal battery" in the unit, and he knew that. The way he phrases it, you hear "90 minutes to charge the unit" but that's not what he says. Good salesman. Bullshit product.

[007akdc007]

i do admit its a waist of money for the common person but for someone who flys alot for buisness can benifite alot by being able to charge thing if there plane supports wifi

[NOCNOTCAUGHT]

Now does it come with snake oil too?

[Mustakari]

The claims RCA make are not just misleading but downright lies. Even in ideal conditions that device's energy harvesting power does not even cover the internal battery self discharge! It would be orders of magniture more powerful if that tiny box was covered with solar cells, even in night time...