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Imagine your cell phone or iPod charging wirelessly in your backpack,
purse or briefcase as you hustle to your next appointment.
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Imagine your laptop always being charged—wirelessly—requiring
no docking station or adaptor.
Ada-based Fulton Innovation, an innovative wireless technology firm in
the Alticor family of businesses, is imaging, and creating, those scenarios
with its cutting-edge eCoupled technology. The technology enables all
kinds of electronics—stereos, power tools, audio/visual equipment,
kitchen appliances, medical devices—to wirelessly power anything
that would normally require a cord.
"Herman Miller used eCoupled technology in a work surface that powers
your laptop without a docking station," says David Baarman, Fulton
Innovation spokesperson and one of the inventors of the technology. "All
you do is set the laptop on the table and it recharges."
Visteon built eCoupled into an auto console that wirelessly recharges
cell phones and iPODs when they’re placed in the console. Bluetooth
technology wirelessly connects the phones and iPods to the auto’s
audio system, interrupting the stereo or pausing the iPod to make and
receive calls, and restarting the system when the call is finished.
"Everyone has a drawer at home loaded with adaptors," Baarman
says. "We’re saying no more of that, one universal power for
everything. Let’s adapt to what the devices need and get rid of
the connector altogether."
In the six years since company leaders formed Fulton Innovation, the firm
has applied for 200 patents and received 40, with more pending. As of
2007, sales revenue reached some $1 billion, and the company has created
15 high-end technical, marketing and R&D jobs.
To see the technology wirelessly powering a George Foreman grill, click
here.
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