Concept note · the lab vocabulary
Wireless power
Delivering energy through open air precisely enough to retire the cord.
What it is
Moving usable electricity through open air on photons — many small, precisely aimed optical beams rather than one strong field. Emitters on the ceiling, photovoltaic plates on the devices, and nothing between them but line of sight. Done right, the product is invisibility: the room simply works, and the proof is what is missing — no outlets in use, no cables sagging behind the furniture.
In the lab
- Cordless Electricity →
- The full physics envelope: emitter matrix, InGaAs receiver plates, two-stage BLE + optical-handshake targeting, and the two-layer safety story that lets lasers share a room with people.
Our position
Distribution, not broadcast. One large beam is a hazard and a single point of failure; our envelope is thousands of non-ignition beams — 78 mW each, honeycomb-packed — that sum to real power (267.85 W optical per square foot of emitter, 160.7 W electrical per square foot of receiver) while no individual beam can burn. Devices buffer locally at twice their duty cycle so the array never sees a surge, and allocation runs on a desperation metric — time-to-empty, not battery percentage — steered electronically through optical phased arrays with nothing mechanical to wear out. The grid carries the electronics and leaves thermal loads to the wall, because replacing the utility is not the claim.
Honest limitations
This is a physics-led concept, not a built system — the envelope is specified end to end, and that is the claim being made. Line of sight is both the safety mechanism and the placement constraint: occlusion is handled gracefully but not powered through. High-draw thermal loads — air conditioning, ovens, water heaters — stay on copper by design. And the certification path for a consumer space dense with low-power lasers is an open regulatory front we have not walked yet.
Related in the vocabulary
- Human-aware safety →
- Meets it in Cordless Electricity — sensing the person before contact — the machine yields first, every time.
The experiments are the proof
Every claim in this note is made concrete somewhere in the lab — the idea exists because the machines needed it.
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