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Space Geeks Seek Wireless Power

The concept is at least as old as Nikola Tesla, the turn-of-the-20th-century icon who used to demonstrate the wonders of electricity by letting it course through his body as crowds gawked in wonder.

Tesla was so fascinated with electricity and wireless frequencies that he spent the early 1900s constructing the Wardenclyffe Tower on land near Long Island Sound, partly to demonstrate that he could beam energy from one point to another without any wires.

But, alas, Tesla experienced a horror that many technology pioneers of today understand all too well: His investors pulled out before he could finish the project.

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http://wired.com/news/technology/wireless_special/?tw=wn_tophead_2

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