Wireless Electric Cord

[bananas]

"The distance the WEC units can broadcast differs from situation to situation (due to interference of such things as walls, power lines, and microwave ovens), but we've beamed power over 300 feet!"
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/wec.shtml

[HereSince1628]

1. Tesla would be proud.

[evlbstrd]

2. This part seemed kind of important:

Warning: Even though these microwaves are about as harmful as the leakage from an ordinary microwave oven (not much), do not put computers, televisions, other sensitive electrical equipment, food, liquids, paper, glass, flammable substances, magnets, or living things in between the base and satellite units. Just in case.

Restricts the usefulness just a tad, don't you think?

[Jackpine Radical]

3. In other words, if Hell

has electricity, these things oughtta do just fine there.

[evlbstrd]

5. Hell apparently uses lots of geothermal energy.

I don't think they need extension cords.

[atommom]

4. Eh, technicalities.

:D

Maybe someday they'll work out the bugs...

[evlbstrd]

6. In the meantime,

I hear cat tastes like chicken. But dog must be slowly braised.

[bananas]

7. You could use it for that giant electric santa on the roof

just put the base unit in the attic. Might keep the snow off the roof, too.

[Dead_Parrot]

8. Could be very useful for PHEV's...

Fit the receiver into the car, and rig the transmitter up to a pressure switch in the garage: park your car and it charges itself up...

[darkism]

9. Left over from April Fool's Day, unfortunately. :x

Try and buy one. :p