Ailongmasike, Tesla and the soul of the Space x, idea wild, a legendary life. Meredith Perry,21 bold abandon power adapter at the age, challenges Wireless charging this "impossible" technique. Not afraid of difficult, Ken studied for, bold idea is common to the two characters, are essential elements for the success. Let us see how Meredith Perry began her journey of wireless magic.
Meredith Perry is 26 years old this year hottest startups in Silicon Valley. The ultrasonic Wireless charging products the company is developing uBeam, senior investor Mike Arrington was appraised as "the closest to the magic" technology, Mark Cuban called it "value wireless ideas", without even seeing the product prototype cases, invested in it.
What is uBeam?
Hunt was introduced before the cloud networks uBeam.
UBeam ultrasonic wireless power is the essence of. The process is to turn electricity into sound through air ultrasonic receiver on the device is sent to the other side, after receiving voice conversion back to electricity, enabling wireless charging. Now uBeam can transmit energy to 15 feet high.
"It is only when one by one the charge allows you to call and walk in the room's wireless power system," Perry said in an interview, "as long as the ultrasonic transmitter range, charging you will have WiFi-like experience."
This technique may also bring major changes to equipment design: support tool uBeam can be configured with a thinner battery, continuous charging. Almost no breakthrough battery technology over the past few decades, device manufacturers can only continue through the battery capacity and energy-saving technologies to be improved.
According to Perry's idea, if wireless transmission of energy everywhere, and perhaps in the future, we no longer use the line, never has the power adapter. Innovation works six years the end of investments
UBeam currently has applied for many patents.
Never ever give up
Meredith Perry's curiosity, and outstanding ability had appeared in her childhood. Elementary school third grade, her reading glasses with a lighting function. Senior year, invented a robot that can carry wood. Grade five, she developed from her mouth and a dog mouth bacteria to study exactly who's mouth clean.
UBeam also comes from one of her whims. When Perry took the laptop charger, suddenly thought of why use this cable to the wireless recharge, which is so out of date. So, had invented the idea of wireless charging.
At first, Perry wanted to pass by Spectra energy spectrum wave or risk is too high, or heavily regulated by the Government, either transmission efficiency is too low.
How can in case of not touching the object, to create a vibration in the air? finally, she thought of Sonic: every day we come in contact with countless waves, but it has not caused any negative impact on us, is it possible to charge the phone uses sound waves to them?
As a professional is Astrobiology, without any background in electrical and mechanical 21-year old student, this is a hard road. As with others, Perry chose to start with Wikipedia. The simplest "supersonic" and "acoustic", then she has to be able to read articles of frontiers of science.
In the meantime, many experts deny the idea of her, and tell her why not realize, and what insurmountable technical difficulties. Of course, she also had a brief panic, after which she began her research, through continuous testing and creativity beyond conventional thinking, and finally found the solution.
It also taught her to have questioned everything, Perry was invited to do speech at the TED, she says: don't just ask okay, but to ask yourself how to do it.
After you confirm the feasibility of wireless charging, the next step is to find financing.
At first Perry can't find investors willing to sponsor uBeam, but she is not so blind. "In front of a seed round of financing, I from the list of angel investors, seeking for wireless power investors interested in such things, related companies, including aerospace, hardware startups." The goal of looking for help Perry locked and successfully won funding by the Founders Fund, Yahoo CEO soon Marisa Mayer also gives a positive reply.
At the AllThingsD Conference last year, Perry brought uBeam samples obtained the favor of many prominent angel investors, she successfully obtained a $ 10 million series a financing, has financed a total of 13.2 million dollars.
Vote for angel investing arm, Andreessen Horowitz, Crunchfund, and Upfront Ventures, Founders Fund, A16Z etc, another Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Zappos Tony Hsieh, founder, Troy Carter, Shawn Fanning and other angels who were also involved in the investment.
Meredith Perry wrote in his personal blog: never, never, never give up. If faith in his own ideas, but the idea itself does not contravene the most basic laws of nature, then there is no reason to be negative thoughts before the complete and full practice itself.
It is probably Perry in seemingly hopeless situations, cuts through, and spell out a path out of it.
At present, uBeam has attracted many large companies. Just think, while drinking coffee in a Starbucks shop, can charge mobile phones, would you be willing to stay in the store? so it is a huge competitive advantage for businesses. Such as Starbucks, and Virgin, and Starwood hotels, Apple, Samsung and other Giants are interested in products that are willing to pay in order monopoly advantage to competitors.
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