Splashpower Ltd. was a

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-based company founded in June 2001. It had been attempting to develop technology for

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of portable devices such as

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s and

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s. Their system worked through

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, adding a free positioning induction loop (at the " SplashPad") to the conventional fix induction loop at the

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(used to shift between AC and DC currents). According to the company's claims, rechargeable devices equipped with a small SplashModule were placed upon a

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-sized SplashPad and had their batteries recharged at a normal rate. A Splashpower system was featured on

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(a popular science/IT programme from the

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) some years ago, where it was given praise and demonstrated a London cafe setting where be-suited executive types were able to charge their phones and PDAs whilst having a power lunch. the company had yet to make an announcement as to when products would be commercially available or at what price. Some technical details of the Splashpower technology can be found in US patent 6,906,495 (available also from the USPTO). the company had not publicly disclosed key parameters of its technology—such as the power transfer efficiency, the practical limits on power levels, and how tolerant the technology is to the presence of metallic objects in the magnetic field—which made it difficult to evaluate the product. Splashpower technology was predicted to become available during 2007, but the company was not able to bring the technology to market. As of April 2008, the company had declared bankruptcy. In May 2008 Splashpower was acquired by Fulton Innovation, the developers of

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wireless power technology.

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Splashpower can't wirelessly recharge back account, declares bankruptcy
Electrical engineering companies of the United Kingdom Companies established in 2001 Companies based in Cambridge Defunct companies of the United Kingdom

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