WEBVTT - Wireless Electricity: When Can We Unplug Our TVs? 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:04.680 Hey, everybody, get this. We're coming probably to a city 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.240 near you this year. We've got all of our shows 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:09.440 scheduled and Chuck's gonna tell you about them right now. 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:13.080 That's right. We're gonna be in Medford, Massachusetts, Washington, DC, 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:16.800 and New York City on May twenty, thirtieth and thirty first. 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:19.640 Right then we're going to be going to Chicago, Minneapolis, 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:23.120 and Indianapolis on the seventh, eighth, and ninth of August. Yeah, 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:25.880 and they're gonna wind it up in Durham, North Carolina 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:28.920 on the fifth of September, and then Atlanta on the seventh. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.159 And tickets are on sale now. 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I think he's in year fifteen now. 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.199 Uh I was, Yeah, he was like shortly after us, right. 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.440 Yeah, yeah, right out on the heels. I can always 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.640 feel them breathing on our neck. It's really gross. He 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:32.040 has a very humid breath. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:32.959 Gross. 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:35.720 So yeah, the reason you said this is Tech Stuff 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.280 Edition is because this is super tech. Ye, there's a 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.800 lot of technical stuff that we're going to dance around. 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:46.679 It's future facing m hm, and it's the kind of 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.640 thing that everybody hopes will hurry up and come but 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.920 probably doesn't know very much about. So here we go 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:51.800 tech stuff. 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:53.760 Ahoy, everyone except me. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:55.360 You don't want this. 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:57.520 I know. The whole time I was reading it, I 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.360 was like, man, it just sounds like a lot of 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:01.720 work to just not have to plug in your phone. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.720 Yeah, it is a lot of word to just not 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:07.800 have to plug in your phone. But I mean, haven't 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.320 you ever like looked around your house and been like, 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.560 these wires are just so stupid, Like I hate having 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:15.920 chords and stuff you have to plug in. You have 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:20.520 to like put something where the outlet is or else 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.160 you have to use a drop cord. It's just it's 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.080 a it's a little more of a pain if you 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.440 stop and think about it, then it appears because we're 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.120 used to it. We've lived under the tyranny of courts 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.160 for so long. It's normal to us. But it's not normal, Chuck. 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.320 Oh, so you're thinking of future where nothing in your 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.800 house is plugged in precisely? Oh no, sure, great, I. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.359 Can't wait for that day. I cannot wait for that. 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.359 And not only that, there's a there's the The last 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.320 thing we're going to talk about is what I'm really 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:51.040 jazzed about. 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.600 Uh Okay, I don't want to spoil. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.959 It, so don't don't don't bring it up. But everybody, 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.399 just stay with us through the end and you'll be rewarded. 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:04.440 Yeah, And what we're talking about is wireless electricity, or 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:10.360 more appropriately, wireless power transfer. Because if you think about 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.840 your your cell phone that you can just sit on 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.799 a little pad and charge it wirelessly. That thing's plugged 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.120 into the wall. So what you're doing is you're transferring 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:19.920 power from one thing to another. 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:24.600 But imagine if that that charger, that pad that you 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:28.040 lay your phone on is your house or no, it 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:32.120 was like mounted on the ceiling of your of your room. Yeah, 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.000 and when you walked into that room, immediately your phone 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.120 just started charging in your pocket. You turned your TV 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:42.120 on and it was going full blast, no problem. And 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.600 then you look behind it and you faint dead away 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:46.800 because it's not even plugged in, and you think there's 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.880 a ghost in your house or God is messing with you. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.360 I just I don't think it. Jazz is me, like it, 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:53.920 Jazz is you. 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:54.640 That's fine. 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:56.360 I'm not going to try to convince I've never looked 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.520 behind a TV on a wall to look for gable, so. 0:03:58.960 --> 0:03:59.880 Oh, well, then you haven't. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:03.280 But we can talk about the history of it, right, 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.120 because this is not a new thing. People have been 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.360 trying to do this basically since there was electricity. 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.880 Yeah, I would have traced it back to Tesla. Tesla 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.440 was very, famously, very interested in trying to figure out 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:19.239 how to create wireless electricity that he planned on sending 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.000 through the Earth from one end to the other, basically 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:28.120 a global wireless electrical network. Right. He didn't, as we'll see. 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.960 But what I didn't realize is it predates him even. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:35.680 Yeah, before him, there was a German physicist name Heinrich Hertz, 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:40.280 who he was a guy who said, hey, manet, electromagnetic 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.240 waves are a thing. I can prove it. And he 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.839 was able to send energy in the form of radio 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:51.360 as between two antennas in the eighteen eighties, which predated 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.560 Tesla's little party trick that I think all of us 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:56.800 probably saw in science or not saw but read about 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:00.200 in science class, or saw on the prestige. Yeah, some 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.800 point where he's like, I'm going to make this light 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:07.560 bulb light up, Uncle Fester style, except I won't even 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:08.680 put it in my mouth. 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.719 Right, And it was a different light bulb. It was 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.760 the predecessor of the fluorescent light. So the gases, when 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.320 they came into the presence of a either a magnetic 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:21.760 field or electrical current, it would glow, it would light up. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:26.039 But he did actually demonstrate this. He showed that you 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.680 can loved it, you can wirelessly power things. And yeah, 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:33.480 this is still the nineteenth century. There's a legend that 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.520 a lot of times is repeated as fact by a 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:40.240 lot of legitimate sources, but supposedly there's no actual evidence 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.839 of this happening. There's a legend that he lit up 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:49.479 a crop of light bulbs, like I think twenty five 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:56.280 miles away from his research station in Colorado, and that 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:01.560 would be like the far and away the longest transmission 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.479 of wireless power in history. No one's even come close 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.400 to that here in the twenty first century. So they 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.799 think that it probably didn't happen. But he was trying 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.040 to do that, but he didn't actually do it. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:17.039 I have a question, sure, will you remember what's it 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.400 called when you say like a gaga lo geese or whatever? 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:25.240 We did that short stuff on it whatever? You just said, 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.479 a crop of light bulbs? Is that the term for 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:28.800 a lot of light bulbs? 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.520 I say, I say it is? Sure? 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.560 Oh okay, I thought that. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.480 Was a pronoun. Was it a collective pronoun? 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:37.680 I don't know. But did you just make that up? 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:38.360 Or is that a thing? 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:40.679 I mean, it just came out of my mouth. 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:46.000 Okay, do you like it? Sure? Sounds like you're growing 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:47.800 light bulbs out in the field or something. 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.840 By light bulbs. They'll say, you got a crop of 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:53.160 light bulbs here I can buy. 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.200 I love it. I mean that's probably a use for crop. 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:56.040 I just didn't know about. 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.880 I know, I will say, hey, man, clerk me a 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:00.440 crop of light bulbs. 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:06.120 So Tesla's got his party tricks happening. May or may 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.240 not have done this to a crop of light bulbs 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.640 over a greater distance. World War two rolls around, and 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.160 all of a sudden, we're using radar and we're learning 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:20.120 how to generate like more improved and more directional and 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:25.440 precise beams of microwaves and things like that. In nineteen 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.280 sixty four, and you can watch this video on YouTube. 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.320 It's kind of fun to watch a William Brown of 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:35.880 Raytheon kept up a little sort of I mean, it's 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.119 a helicopter, looks like it's made out of a rector 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.480 set maybe yeah, about sixty feet off the ground for 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.240 ten hours with no wires. 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.360 Yeah, And they could have gone longer, but the novelty 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.640 wore off, so he just stopped after ten hours. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.400 Yeah, He's like, all right, does everyone get it right? 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:54.480 Can we go home? Now? 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.040 Like? How many times in part to pass this hula 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:58.240 hoop over it? Right? 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:02.880 Right? So that that was a huge, huge accomplishment, And 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:07.560 I believe the same William Brown of Raytheon created another 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.840 record that stood until from nineteen seventy five until from 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.760 what I can tell, this past January, like a month ago. 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:19.400 In nineteen seventy five, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab transmitted I 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:24.080 think thirty five kilowatts of power, and like fifty percent 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.960 of what they transmitted I think a quarter of a 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:31.400 mile away or something like that, was received and lit 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.800 up another crop of light bulbs. That's what people do, 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.479 They light up crops of light bulbs when they're demonstrating 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:38.320 what matters electrical. 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.960 Trans because they light up and everyone's like, ooh. 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:42.360 Yeah, and actually I'm sorry. It was more than a 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.360 quarter mile. I think it was basically a slat mile. 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.040 It was like one point five to four kilometers. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:48.520 Wow. 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:50.960 Yeah, so that's a really long way. And it stood 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.600 from nineteen seventy five till twenty twenty four, almost fifty years, 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.800 and then I believe the Korean Space Agency just broke 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.600 it by like three tenths of a kilometer. Really, it's 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.840 not like we've jumped by leaps and bounds. And almost 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.160 if I were William Brown would be like, really, you 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.040 could just wait until you could beat it by like 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:10.080 ten times that. 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.560 Yeah, it's not very sports have been. 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:17.000 Like no, it's like if you made the world's biggest bagel, right, 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.920 and somebody made another world's biggest bagel by like ten 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.760 more pounds. What's the point Are we really just gonna 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:24.840 go back and forth year after year with a new 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:29.000 world's biggest bagel? No, you need to really like double 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.080 it up at least before you break somebody's record. It's 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:33.640 just common courtesy. 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:34.880 You know, how to really get their goat. It's just 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:39.679 drop one extra poppy seat on top o me has 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:40.839 more mats. 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.079 Man, I would just start bleeding out of my ears. 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.600 So this can happen in a couple of ways, and 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.520 who knows what the future holds. We are going to 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.120 get to that stuff like you were talking about, Like 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.839 you walk in and everything's just like charging the second 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:57.960 U inner. But these days we have what's called nearfield 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:02.280 and what I like to call further afield, but farfield 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:08.120 wireless transfer. When you think of nearfield, you're already doing that. 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.840 If you have an electric toothbrush, if you have a 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:16.360 modern smartphone that can wirelessly charge. We'll talk about the 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:21.000 two different ways those are happening, but those are examples 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.200 of nearfield. And I think a lot of people like 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.080 I was, are amazed to know that when you put 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.920 that little electric toothbrush on its stand. Unless I'm wrong, 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:34.320 That little nubbin is only there to keep that thing upright. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.560 It's not conducting electricity at all, is it? 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.120 As far as I know, No, because the whole thing's 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.800 fully sealed, so the electricity is going from plastic to 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.319 plastic via waves. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.720 So it looks like a little like a charging stump. 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.360 But you could just assume lay it down on top 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:54.200 of that thing, right. 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.720 I don't know. I think for an electric toothbrush, what 0:10:57.760 --> 0:10:59.959 we're talking about at this point is called wireless in duction. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.800 In charging, it's the same kind of principle that you 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.439 use for an induction cook top. Magnetic fields are generated 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:10.960 that create an electric current that's passed to another coil 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.480 on the other side that's received, and then that's attached 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.560 to a battery that gets recharged. Right, And I think 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.760 for something like a toothbrush, it has to be really precise, 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.880 so the coils have to basically line up as close 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.360 to one another as possible, but they don't have to 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.080 physically touch, which is why you can encase it in 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.040 plastic and seal it off and use it for an 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.360 application that's around water, like an electric toothbrush. But I 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:36.560 do think that has to be precise. I think you 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.360 can get a little more jiggy with it with the 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:45.440 resonant induction charging, where the coils are bigger or there's 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:49.280 more coils. But they also have I don't know how 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:53.680 they do this, but they make the frequencies that come 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.080 out of one coil and go into received by the 0:11:56.120 --> 0:12:00.600 other perfectly in sync, so that the the coils are 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.920 basically tuned to one another. So you can actually keep 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.840 something a little further away and still get a charge 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:08.240 out of it. 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.880 Okay, so I was wrong, then that stump serves the 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:16.560 purpose of probably aligning it perfectly, probably, although it's not 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.920 actually you know, like a charging stump. You probably could 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.840 not just set your toothbrush down with a butt in 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:24.640 near that stump, you know what I'm saying. 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.000 No, but if you're talking about like your phone on 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:31.280 like a pad charger, you just kind of set it down. Sure, 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.719 Sure it'll still charge, even though it's not like perfectly 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:38.440 centered on the charger, depending on the type of charging station. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.680 Yeah, and I have seen those to be fairly hit 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.360 or miss through the years. Yes, the little charging pad 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.520 sometimes they work. Sometimes you've got to move your phone 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.079 around it and it makes more sense now than I 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:53.120 know how it works why you may have to move 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.840 your phone around. And it's also slower than like a 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.200 wall charge, which you know is one of the the 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:00.840 humps to get over that we'll get. 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.520 To it is, and they have basically gotten over that hump. 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.640 So for a while I didn't realize this, but Nokia 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:09.960 was the first to be like, hey, everybody, check out 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.800 our wireless charge. Well back in twenty twelve, I had 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.160 no idea. Yeah, and that set off like a whole 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.679 stampede where every phone company wanted to create a wireless 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.400 charging pad, right, and so everybody was coming up with 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:26.720 different protocols, different structures on how to make this happen, 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:32.120 and finally a group called the Wireless Power Consortium basically 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:37.040 emerged with their cheese standard key like the Chinese traditional 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.280 medicine concept of the life force that flows through. 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.880 Everything, Yeah, like gigong exactly. 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:49.600 Yeah, that's also associated with this wireless power transfer to 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.679 where everybody builds it the exact same way. Right, So 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:56.839 that's pretty cool. But it wasn't like you had to 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.040 get it pretty much dead on to get a decent 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.000 charge out of it, like you said it was. It 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:06.720 transferred far less power, I think about five watts rather 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.760 than the standard fifteen eighteen or more that you get 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:13.080 from plugging your phone in. Yeah, so they came up 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.840 with G two point zero and you know the new 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:19.200 Apple Apple chargers that like snap onto the back of 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.440 your your phone with a magnet. 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.600 No, oh, really, do you have my iPhone? I do? 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:27.440 Is it fairly new? 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.440 Uh? Let me see what I usually get, like every 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:32.880 third or fourth version. 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:35.960 Okay, you may or may not have this. I don't know. 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.120 I couldn't even tell you what if you told me 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.840 the the which one it was, I'd be like, oh, 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:42.600 actually I don't know. So I don't know why you've 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:49.240 been asked to that. But the newer iPhones, yeah, that 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.520 should have it. I think that's what I have too. Yeah, 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.560 it is and it works. So there's a there's a 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.040 type of charge you can get called a mag safe charger. 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:58.040 Yeah, yeah, I got that. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.520 Okay, so then this you have what I'm talking about. 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.560 It snaps into place, so like magnet, it holds the 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.960 phone in place, right, Yeah, I got one of those 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.640 in my car. Okay, So what that's doing is it's 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:14.720 holding the coil to the coil, so that in addition 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.120 to them being powerful and tuned to the same frequency, 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:21.120 they're also precisely interlocked, so the transfer of power is 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.360 way more efficient. And now they're reaching like power transfer 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:28.280 like fifteen, eighteen, twenty watts, just like you would have 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.160 with a traditional like pluging cord. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.520 Yeah, and you know what, I'm not much of a 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.880 what do you call it? Buzz marketer, but I have 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:44.920 to say the car charger from Spiegel is what I like. 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:49.240 The catalog I don't know, it's SPI E G E L. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.680 Is that spelled to save? Yeah, spell the same. I 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:59.840 mean their charger. It's fifty bucks and it works flawlessly, 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:01.560 and it looks good. 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.359 And it just says a pompadour. 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.040 Well it sticks on, you know, but the little stick 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.800 on base is smaller than other ones I've seen, so 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.000 if you know, sometimes your car you can't get it 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.040 in like a great place or whatever. But anyway, I 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.040 think it works great, and so I do actually use 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:18.520 this technology very nice. 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.760 Okay, so make safe so you have that. But the 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.800 thing is is we've actually kind of gone backwards in 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.240 that sense where you're getting more power transfer again wirelessly, 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.640 like you're not plugging your phone into anything. It's laying 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:32.880 on something that is connected to a power source, but 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:36.560 your phone's not plugged in, so it is wireless power transfer. 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:41.160 But rather than making it easier to just toss your 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.680 phone onto a pad or a table or something like 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.000 that and it immediately starts charging, it has to be 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.040 more precise. Hence the magnets. Sure, we want to be 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.440 going in the opposite direction to where your phone doesn't 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.800 even really have to be anywhere near that charging pad 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.800 to get a charge, and that's where people are moving toward. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.680 But the cool thing about the sheet two point zero 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.480 is that this protocol is it's spreading out so that 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.879 if you had, say like an Android phone and iPhone, 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.800 you would be able to use the same charger for both, 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.440 which is brand new. That's a new thing, and that's 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:16.480 a really great way for the industry to be going 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.440 because it cuts out on packaging, cuts out a manufacturing, 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.320 it cuts down on all sorts of stuff it costs. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:24.960 So it's a good direction to be going in. 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:29.080 Yeah, and divided houses can come together once again exactly 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.399 this kind of charging. There is a future application that 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.240 might be kind of cool. If you drive an electric 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.879 car to where you pull in your garage and you 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:42.879 just pull over charging Matt much like your telephone basically 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:47.760 to where you wouldn't have to plug it in or whatever. Again, 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:49.919 for me, it's like it's no trouble to plug something in, 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.080 so it's not that big of a deal. But I 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.639 imagine these little conveniences are a big deal to a 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:57.400 lot of people for sure. 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.320 I think the one that I'm really excited about is 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:05.600 like that plus application, which is putting those kind of 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:11.520 coils that transmit electricity wirelessly to a receiver coil in 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:16.240 your car in asphalt, so when you're driving on the highway, 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.080 your car is actually charging. That would do it. That 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.480 would do it for gas engine cars people, you would 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.480 have to just be a total jerk to have like 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.359 an internal combustion engine after that point, because that's the 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.280 big problem with it. Like do you remember that stupid 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.240 electric car that I rented in Seattle and drove to 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:36.960 Portland and I had to sit for forty five minutes 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.840 in this little town doing nothing but waiting for the 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.080 stupid rental car to charge. That is no way to live. 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:45.280 But if I had just been able to drive down 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:48.120 what is that five? The five, and that what they 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:48.439 call it. 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:50.200 I think that's a California think. 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:52.120 Okay, well, if I had just been able to drive 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:56.560 down I five and my car's charging the whole time, perfect, 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.920 there's no reason for any any fossil fuel car all. 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.920 Now, is the idea there that every road in America 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:08.119 has is redone with charging capabilities underneath it. 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:14.000 What I would guess is they would you would probably 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.760 just need to do one lane. 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.359 And then and then maybe only on expressways or something. 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.800 Right, So one lane on an expressway and you like, 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.840 if your car has over some amount of charge, like 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.359 the Cultural Folk Way would be, you don't go on 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:32.680 that lane. You leave it open for people who really. 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.680 Need to charge the car. That'll go over well exactly 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:39.240 in the United States. That'll that'll become the uh look 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:40.199 at that jerk lane. 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.639 Exactly. Yeah, it'll be like the new driving slow in 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:44.560 the fast lane thing. 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.080 I look forward to that day. I'm gonna be old 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.399 and feeble and I just you can send me updates 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:51.760 on how things are going from the road. 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.440 But that's but that's all. But you just need one 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:56.399 lane like that on a stretch of highway, and I 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.120 think that would do it, at least at first, all right, 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:03.000 I we get this done like tomorrow, all. 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.359 Right, But in the meantime we should take a break, okay, 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:07.880 because we're gonna have to buy some tools. Okay, all right, 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:35.080 we'll be right back. All right, So we're back. Josh's boy. 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:38.479 Look at the smile on your face thinking about driving 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:40.919 untold miles without having to stop. 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:43.000 I mean, it's just going to change everything. 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:45.720 Peeing in a gatorade bottle. You're not stopping for. 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:47.120 Nothing, No, no way. 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:51.239 Just think of the cannonball run I have. 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:53.960 I'm just gonna take this opportunity, all right, But yes, 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:57.520 the cannonball run would work really well with that. Yeah, 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:00.560 if you I see this enough that I feel like 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:03.000 this is worth mentioning. If you ever find yourself in 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.480 an emergency situation where you have to pee into a 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:08.720 water bottle or a mountain dew bottle or something like that, 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.199