Joe: “I was sure I had a solution.”
Jumble of Everyone, or “Joe 2”: “To what?”
Joe: “I could never find my charging wires.”
Joe 2: “Forget where you left them?”
Joe: “Yeah. But then I realized that if the whole room was a charger, then it wouldn’t matter where I was. I would live in a charging station.”
Joe 2: “You know, that kinda makes sense. I know that wireless charging is possible, but only over short distances. I have to place my watch on its magnetic charger, so it really isn’t ‘wireless.’ I suppose you have the solution.”
Joe: “Well, I do. I just invented a system that can deliver 50 (aside: Does that say 50?) watts through magnetetic fields.”
Joe 2: “Magnetic? You, YOU invented that?”
Joe: “Well, I thought about it. One day I thought, ‘I wish I didn’t have to remember where that damn wire is. I wish I could just walk around and my phone would be charged.’ At first, I had the idea of an extension cord, but if I flew around the country, I’d need one about 3,000 miles long, and that would be heavy. Besides, I’m always untangling wires—How the ‘h’ ‘e’ ‘double toothpick’ do they get tangled like that? Or how do hoses get kinks in them? You know—where was I? Oh! Yeah. Wires. I thought, ‘Why not have a room that charges everything in it?’”
Joe 2: “But YOU didn’t actually invent one.”
Joe: “But I thought of it, so it’s my idea.”
Joe 2: “I just read an article on rooms as chargers. Just saw that people at the University of Michigan and the University of Tokyo just figured out how to make a room a charger. I don’t think that qualifies you to claim inventor’s status.” *
Joe: “But I thought about it.”
Joe 2: “You know, just because you thought about it doesn’t mean the idea was yours. You can’t plagiarize. Too many sources of discovery, what with the Internet, old videos, and such.”
Joe: “But look how good the idea is. What could go wrong?”
Joe 2: “So, the FCC has guidelines for electromagnetic energy exposure. Let’s say you get your wireless-charging room. Let’s say it works to your satisfaction. And then let’s say that your grandma walks into the room.”
Joe: “I love my grandma. Grammy used to sit me…”
Joe 2: “Set.”
Joe: “What?”
Joe 2: “Set. You need a transitive verb.”
Joe: “Uh. Grammy used to sit me on her lap and tell me about how she worked in the Chinese laundry downtown sometimes 23 hours a day.”
Joe 2: “Just get to the point.”
Joe: “Why were we talking about Grammy?”
Joe 2: “Wireless room. What if Grammy had a pacemaker? You want her to walk into a room filled with electromagnetic fields swirling around?”
Joe: “What would that do? Did Grammy have a pacemaker? I didn’t kn…”
Joe 2: “Hey, you’re the ‘inventor.’ You tell me. Could the wireless room charger interfere with her pacemaker? Don’t they caution people with pacemakers to avoid magnets? As it is, we are wired through our nerves. We all know what a taser can do.”
Joe: “You’re making this into something it’s not. I don’t intend to electrocute Grammy. She can sit—or is it ‘set’?—in her rocker in the room. I’m all about safety. Nobody’s gonna hurt Grammy. Nobody’s gonna get hurt.”
Joe 2: “Just sayin’. Untangling a wire through a slow methodical untwisting might be much safer for Grammy in the long run than trying to untangle all those invisible electromagnetic force lines twisting through a room and through her pacemaker. Would you have a failsafe, something like a circuit breaker, transformer, or non-conductor? Would Grammy sit on a rubber rocker?”
Joe: “Grammy used to tell me stories about Gramps and how she had to wash the coal dust out of his clothes every night even though she spent the day in the Chinese laundry with Mr. and Mrs. Bok Choy and their twenty three kids. See, I know what it means to work. That’s why I have so many good ideas.”
Joe 2: “But magnetic fields twist in somewhat circular patterns. How do you get the charge into the corners of a rectangular room? How do you control the…”
Joe: “What. Corners? What were we talking about? Twisting….”
Joe 2: “The room-size charger that needed no wires you say you invented.”
Joe: “Have you seen my charging wire? Damn thing always disappears. And then it gets tangled. All those twists…They tell me I’m not supposed…You know, I thought of making a wireless charger….”
*U. Of Michigan. 30 Aug 2021. ‘Charging room’ system powers lights, phones, laptops without wires. Phys.org. Online at https://techxplore.com/news/2021-08-room-powers-laptops-wires.html See also Sasatani, T. Et al, Room-scale magnetoquasistatic wireless power transfer using a cavity-based multimode resonator. Nat Electron (2021). doi.org/10.1038/s41928-021-00636-3n. Accessed August 31, 2021.
Jumble of Everyone, or “Joe 2”: “To what?”
Joe: “I could never find my charging wires.”
Joe 2: “Forget where you left them?”
Joe: “Yeah. But then I realized that if the whole room was a charger, then it wouldn’t matter where I was. I would live in a charging station.”
Joe 2: “You know, that kinda makes sense. I know that wireless charging is possible, but only over short distances. I have to place my watch on its magnetic charger, so it really isn’t ‘wireless.’ I suppose you have the solution.”
Joe: “Well, I do. I just invented a system that can deliver 50 (aside: Does that say 50?) watts through magnetetic fields.”
Joe 2: “Magnetic? You, YOU invented that?”
Joe: “Well, I thought about it. One day I thought, ‘I wish I didn’t have to remember where that damn wire is. I wish I could just walk around and my phone would be charged.’ At first, I had the idea of an extension cord, but if I flew around the country, I’d need one about 3,000 miles long, and that would be heavy. Besides, I’m always untangling wires—How the ‘h’ ‘e’ ‘double toothpick’ do they get tangled like that? Or how do hoses get kinks in them? You know—where was I? Oh! Yeah. Wires. I thought, ‘Why not have a room that charges everything in it?’”
Joe 2: “But YOU didn’t actually invent one.”
Joe: “But I thought of it, so it’s my idea.”
Joe 2: “I just read an article on rooms as chargers. Just saw that people at the University of Michigan and the University of Tokyo just figured out how to make a room a charger. I don’t think that qualifies you to claim inventor’s status.” *
Joe: “But I thought about it.”
Joe 2: “You know, just because you thought about it doesn’t mean the idea was yours. You can’t plagiarize. Too many sources of discovery, what with the Internet, old videos, and such.”
Joe: “But look how good the idea is. What could go wrong?”
Joe 2: “So, the FCC has guidelines for electromagnetic energy exposure. Let’s say you get your wireless-charging room. Let’s say it works to your satisfaction. And then let’s say that your grandma walks into the room.”
Joe: “I love my grandma. Grammy used to sit me…”
Joe 2: “Set.”
Joe: “What?”
Joe 2: “Set. You need a transitive verb.”
Joe: “Uh. Grammy used to sit me on her lap and tell me about how she worked in the Chinese laundry downtown sometimes 23 hours a day.”
Joe 2: “Just get to the point.”
Joe: “Why were we talking about Grammy?”
Joe 2: “Wireless room. What if Grammy had a pacemaker? You want her to walk into a room filled with electromagnetic fields swirling around?”
Joe: “What would that do? Did Grammy have a pacemaker? I didn’t kn…”
Joe 2: “Hey, you’re the ‘inventor.’ You tell me. Could the wireless room charger interfere with her pacemaker? Don’t they caution people with pacemakers to avoid magnets? As it is, we are wired through our nerves. We all know what a taser can do.”
Joe: “You’re making this into something it’s not. I don’t intend to electrocute Grammy. She can sit—or is it ‘set’?—in her rocker in the room. I’m all about safety. Nobody’s gonna hurt Grammy. Nobody’s gonna get hurt.”
Joe 2: “Just sayin’. Untangling a wire through a slow methodical untwisting might be much safer for Grammy in the long run than trying to untangle all those invisible electromagnetic force lines twisting through a room and through her pacemaker. Would you have a failsafe, something like a circuit breaker, transformer, or non-conductor? Would Grammy sit on a rubber rocker?”
Joe: “Grammy used to tell me stories about Gramps and how she had to wash the coal dust out of his clothes every night even though she spent the day in the Chinese laundry with Mr. and Mrs. Bok Choy and their twenty three kids. See, I know what it means to work. That’s why I have so many good ideas.”
Joe 2: “But magnetic fields twist in somewhat circular patterns. How do you get the charge into the corners of a rectangular room? How do you control the…”
Joe: “What. Corners? What were we talking about? Twisting….”
Joe 2: “The room-size charger that needed no wires you say you invented.”
Joe: “Have you seen my charging wire? Damn thing always disappears. And then it gets tangled. All those twists…They tell me I’m not supposed…You know, I thought of making a wireless charger….”
*U. Of Michigan. 30 Aug 2021. ‘Charging room’ system powers lights, phones, laptops without wires. Phys.org. Online at https://techxplore.com/news/2021-08-room-powers-laptops-wires.html See also Sasatani, T. Et al, Room-scale magnetoquasistatic wireless power transfer using a cavity-based multimode resonator. Nat Electron (2021). doi.org/10.1038/s41928-021-00636-3n. Accessed August 31, 2021.
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