Research interview questions - advice on Wireless Charging

[researchstudent123]

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Hello, I need to conduct interviews with experts in the relevant field for my university project. The topic and product that I’m developing a business plan for is a device that charges household appliances wirelessly – a Wireless Multi-Device Charging product. Could you provide me with your expertise in this field by answering a few questions about my idea?

I am looking for any experts in the electrical engineering field, as well as manufacturers, retailers and consumers to answer some of my questions so I can include them in my research.

If you are available to answer please can you include your expertise - name and job title and where you work or your qualifications and ideally your email address.

Is the production of a Wireless Multi-Device Charing product simple?

Is it cost-effective to manufacture?

Could its use be harmful to human health? If so, is it possible to use a conductor to send electricity only to necessary devices?

Would it be useful for people and is there consumer market demand?

Your thoughts and critiques.

If you can answer any of these questions or those you would like to answer, I would greatly appreciate it. Additionally, I would like to ask for your permission to use this information in my project and to include your contact details.

Thank you very much for your help.

 

[James]

Wireless power transfer is easy over a short distance, you can buy wireless chargers for your mobile phone.
over distances it becomes increasingly difficult
research Nikola Tesla if you want to learn about wireless power over distance.

 

[DPG]

Also look at the inductive charging they have trialled in bus lanes etc.

 

[researchstudent123]

Wireless power transfer is easy over a short distance, you can buy wireless chargers for your mobile phone.
over distances it becomes increasingly difficult
research Nikola Tesla if you want to learn about wireless power over distance.

Hi James, thanks so much for your response - would you be open to answering my interview questions? I'm aware of the wireles chargers for phones - and Tela technology - and want to explore the idea of a consumer wireless charging device for laptops/phones/ipads etc. that works to charge simultaneously. You wouldn't need to answer all of the questions but any that you feel you could share insight with me on.

 

[researchstudent123]

Also look at the inductive charging they have trialled in bus lanes etc.

Hi DPG, thank you for your input - would you be open to answering my interview questions so I can include it as part of my University report?

 

[researchstudent123]

Also look at the inductive charging they have trialled in bus lanes etc.

Hi DPG, thanks so much - would you be open to helping me with my research by answering some of my questions and letting me me include your name and job title in my research paper?

 

[James]

Hi James, thanks so much for your response - would you be open to answering my interview questions? I'm aware of the wireles chargers for phones - and Tela technology - and want to explore the idea of a consumer wireless charging device for laptops/phones/ipads etc. that works to charge simultaneously. You wouldn't need to answer all of the questions but any that you feel you could share insight with me on.

Unfortunately, although it is a lovely idea that you can have a device that charges all your stuff wirelessly, with today’s technology you either have to place it on a pad and have almost no gap between the charger and device or.

a. Use technology that is so inefficient that gretta thumberg and her mates will be camped on your lawn until you destroy it in an enviromentaly friendly way

b. Have an antenna attached to your devices that is so big that you could use it for drunken sword fights with your mates.

c. Use technology that exists already but has the drawback of damaging the tissue of any living thing that passes through its transmission beam.

 

[James]

Why don’t you post your questions on here, or even as a poll to get the hive mind working?

 

[researchstudent123]

Unfortunately, although it is a lovely idea that you can have a device that charges all your stuff wirelessly, with today’s technology you either have to place it on a pad and have almost no gap between the charger and device or.

a. Use technology that is so inefficient that gretta thumberg and her mates will be camped on your lawn until you destroy it in an enviromentaly friendly way

b. Have an antenna attached to your devices that is so big that you could use it for drunken sword fights with your mates.

c. Use technology that exists already but has the drawback of damaging the tissue of any living thing that passes through its transmission beam.

I love these points, well put and amusing to read, thank you! Is it possible though to create something like a wireless phone charger that charges your laptops/ipads/mobile phones without them all having to be the same brand? So it would be multi-device but you'd have to have the charger in the close vicinity of all of the devices?

 

[Mike Johnson]

If Apple, Garmin et all have not come up with that solution already I would think it's not viable.