“The Next Little Thing: Wireless Electricity”
Fortune Small Business
December 2009/January 2010
“Marin Soljačić couldn't sleep. The problem was his wife's Nokia cell phone. The tyrannical device beeped on the bedside table when it needed to be plugged in. It could not be disabled. Instead of taking a hammer to the phone, Soljačić marveled at the fact that this device, and billions of others like it, was sitting a few feet away from all the electricity it could ever need. Why couldn't it receive power wirelessly, just as laptops get Wi-Fi?”
Mass Technology Leadership Council Names WiTricity “Emerging Innovative Company of 2009”
Forbes.com
November 6, 2009
“The Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council announced the winners of the 2009 Technology Leadership Awards at its 12th annual Awards Gala yesterday evening at the Copley Marriot Hotel. These awards recognize the best and brightest technology innovators and leaders in the Bay State. Awards are given to companies and individuals that either develop or implement innovative technology solutions. The recognition highlights recent and significant contributions to companies or the broader industry.”
“The GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies of 2009”
AlwaysOn Network
September 3, 2009
“With every industry and sector on earth in the midst of a green revolution, plenty of worthy candidates always present themselves for the GoingGreen 100. Adhering to the usual criteria, our judges evaluated hundreds of companies. AlwaysOn Network recognized WiTricity as Energy Efficiency winner for the breakthrough potential of their technologies, market size, management team, and investors.”
Mass High Tech Names 2009 All-Stars of New England Innovation Economy
Mass High Tech
August 21, 2009
“Witricity CEO, Eric Giler, was recognized as a leading technology executive and entrepreneur by Mass High Tech’s editorial staff. “The All-Stars honorees represent a broad range of technology and service sectors, including robotics, mobile technology, hardware, health care, materials, Internet and biotech. They stand as proof that innovation and growth in New England come in many forms, and technology leaders continue to emerge,” said E. Douglas Banks, editor of Mass High Tech.
“Wireless Power System Shown Off”
BBC News
July 23, 2009
“A system that can deliver power to devices without the need for wires has been shown off at a hi-tech conference. The technique exploits simple physics and can be used to charge a range of electronic devices over many meters. Eric Giler, chief executive of US firm WiTricity, showed mobile phones and televisions charging wirelessly in Oxford. He said the system could replace the miles of expensive power cables and billions of disposable batteries. ”
“Electricity Unplugged”
Physics World
February, 2009
“In the near future, wireless electricity could replace the ubiquitous power cable. WiTricity co-founder, Aristeidis Karalis, looks at a revolutionary new way of transmitting power without wires. ”
Wireless Electricity is Here (Seriously)
Fast Company
February/March 2009
“Though WiTricity uses two coils — one powered, one not, just like eCoupled’s system — it differs radically in the following way: Soljačić’s coils don’t have to be close to each other to transfer energy. Instead, they depend on so-called magnetic resonance. Like acoustical resonance, which allows an opera singer to break a glass across the room by vibrating it with the correct frequency of her voice’s sound waves, magnetic resonance can launch an energetic response in something far away.”
Wireless Power Electrifies CES
Forbes.com
January 9, 2009
“Perhaps the most promising wireless power technology is on display in a private suite high in the Venetian hotel tower. It’s the latest iteration of WiTricity, the Watertown, Mass.-based brainchild of MIT physicist Marin Soljačić.”
The Power to Overcome a Bad Economy
Boston Globe
November 23, 2008
By Scott Kirsner
In a brick building in Watertown where men's suits were once made, Eric Giler is running a company that seems to be defying the gravity of the current economic morass....
Giler Charged Up to be WiTricity CEO
Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology
October 31, 2008
By Efrain Viscarolasaga
Stealthy wireless power developer WiTricity Corp. in Watertown has hired Brooktrout Technology Inc. co-founder and former Groove Mobile Inc. CEO Eric Giler as chief executive, adding a business presence to the company’s heralded MIT research team....
25 Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellowships
The New York Times
September 23, 2008
Physicist Marin Soljačić is among 25 recipients of the MacArthur Foundation grant, awarded to “people working on the very edge of discovery and people at the edge of a new synthesis” ...
Durchbruch in der Elektrotechnik – Strom auf Schwingen
(Breakthrough in Electrical Engineering – The Power of Resonance)
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
November 27, 2008
Dem US-Physiker Marin Soljacic ist es gelungen, elektrische Energie durch die Luft zu übertragen. Nun steht die Industrie bei ihm Schlange. Eine Reportage von Martin Kotynek...
TR10: Wireless Power
MIT Technology Review
March/April 2008
Technology Review presents 10 technologies that we think are most likely to change the way we live. Physicist Marin Soljačić is working toward a world of wireless electricity...
Wireless Energy
New York Times
December 9, 2007
By Clay Risen
The M.I.T. physicist Marin Soljacic found inspiration for his latest invention in the dying batteries of his wife’s cellphone. Every morning around 2 her phone would beep loudly. “One night it occurred to me, wouldn’t it be great if this thing took care of its own charging?” he says. The question was how to transfer energy wirelessly...
Wireless energy promise powers up
BBC News
June 7, 2007
By Jonathan Fildes
Science and technology reporter, BBC News
A clean-cut vision of a future freed from the rat’s nest of cables needed to power today’s electronic gadgets has come one step closer to reality.
Wireless Energy Lights Bulb from Seven Feet Away
Scientific American
June 7, 2007
By JR Minkel
If you thought wireless Internet made life convenient, try wrapping your mind around wireless power...
Das Ende der Strippe
(The End of the Wire)
Zeit Online
June 14, 2007
By Von Christoph Drösser
Ein Preis von 3000 Dollar winkte dem, der es schaffen würde, »einen Luftschiffmotor mit Energie anzutreiben, die durch den Raum übertragen wird«. Der drahtlose Strom sollte 30 Meter überbrücken und eine Leistung von 75 Watt liefern....
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