Matt Hodnett of Fulton Innovations demonstrates the company’s wireless power systems for cooking – without making your work surface hot
CES 2011: Fulton Innovations has wireless power for the kitchen
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It would be a lot cheaper than an induction cooking plate in each and every pan. The electronics for the handle are cheap enough. A smart pan that talks to the stove is still pretty durned clever.
So, you wouldn’t be able to cook anyplace with wireless power, but you could use your “kitchen stove” as a regular counter when you aren’t cooking on it. As a man with a tiny kitchen and little counter space, that would be a huge improvement.
I thought that too initially, but pretty sure there’s an induction hob under the surface, and the soup and pan have dumb steel parts that are just magnetically heated by the hob, and then there’s a seperate circuit thing to wirelessly communicate to the hob controller to tell it what to do and what the temperature is; much, much cheaper to do it that way, particularly for things like soup.
I thought the cooking pad was built into the pan? Either way it’s cool, but built into the pan was what had me wishing I were an engineer.
I think that’s all this is, it’s an induction pad under the counter, the pan has a wireless thermometer, and it sends a signal to turn it on/off, but it heats just the same.
The blender is more clever, it sucks power out of the induction pad.
That’s incredible. I still have a hard time believing that the counter will not be warm/hot when using the pan though
durned character limit
But of course I don’t have the engineering knowledge to do that, so I’m glad that somebody else did. And, I can see that this was posted a full year before I saw that infomercial. Well, I’m not SO far behind the curve, heh heh.
One morning I saw an infomercial for an induction cooking pad. I thought, “Why not build the induction pad right into the pan? Well, you’d have to plug it in. Waitaminit! wireless power transmission is on the way. Man, I wish I had the engineering knowledge to create this; I’d make a few million as soon as wireless power transmission becomes the Next Big Thing. You could have the controls in the handle and…”
But of course I don’t have the engineering knowledge to do that, so I’m glad…
So…there are NO dangers involved with wireless power? it just seems too easy!
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People don’t understand how could electricity be wireless? It doesn’t make sense to them, when they are forgetting this is the world where something like ‘wireless internet’ exists.
EXACTLY!
Nikola Tesla had wireless conduction. It was never adopted by the big power companies, so it never took off. You can do an entire house like this with less cost than running copper wires. You can do the same with city streets and cars. One thing you can’t do with it is make loads of money. The economics behind it cut into power company budgets deep, so it will, as it has been since the ’50′s, be a niche market with perhaps half a dozen products worldwide at any given time. Thank you big money.