#Vega Gokhale

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Imaging a world where all the main kids live is so like…

Weimin and Aura eventually getting married, and it’s like the second their legally able to since they’re those high school sweethearts. It’s a small affair held in Vromeado but Seb is the best man and Coralie is the bride’s maid of honor. Dion gets to bring up the rings which he helped design with Aura and then made. Weimin and Aura’s younger siblings (Linh, Lam, and Jelke) all end up doing the flower thing together. Aura’s dad walking her down the aisle. Just- the two of them getting to be happy together and actually getting to live out the life they wanted outside of the Eye.

Coralie turning on the Eye at the last minute and escaping, finding that acceptance and love she’d always been so desperate for in the others. Sabrina not having to grapple with the trauma and trust issues Coralie’s betrayal had given her. Coralie finally realizing that while Sabrina doesn’t like her romantically that doesn’t negate their friendship or love. Coralie getting to travel with Sabrina like she’d always wanted and building herself the family she’d never had.

The little things too: Mirja going to stay with Peik and his family for awhile so she can learn more about healing as she regards Peik and Marina like the siblings she’d never had. Sol fully leaving Sawhaetia and eir family behind and moving in with Kenny, Aiden, and Elena as the four of them try to incite some positive change within Ninrett. Vega moving to Hoiden to move in with Tempest after receiving their degree in Thrioniya and finding themselves a little more. Dion, a few years after everything when he’s more mature and finally comfortable in his own skin, hitting it off with Zephyr and something starting between them. Seb becoming a teacher in Svyranos alongside aiding with some of the heavy reconstruction happening there.

Just the main kids all staying connected after taking down the Eye and all getting to grow up and become a sort of large family.

Imagine your oc growing old with their loved ones. There's no question on this post I just get a little emotional thinking about it. You can ramble about this in the tags or rbs if you want, just imagine your oc and their loved ones in the far future and where they've gotten by then

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Energous’ WattUp can charge hearing aids and other devices from 15 feet away

San Jose, California company Energous — the brainchild of George Holmes, an MIT graduate and former sales executive at Lucent — has made considerable progress toward its goal of ubiquitous power-at-a-distance charging in five years. It’s amassed more than 170 patents, partnered with Dialog Semiconductor to manufacture and sell its licensed chip designs, and assembled a crack team of engineers who’ve honed its WattUp transceivers for commercialization.

So naturally, Energous CEO Steve Rizzone had lots to discuss at CES 2019 in Las Vegas, where VentureBeat caught up with him for a brief chat. His main point: FCC-approved Energous devices are just weeks from shipping.

“[What’s] different at CES 2019 is that this is all this … technology is ready [to be] actively … integrated into customer products,” he said. “Products are going to start shipping to the consumer in the coming weeks.”

You’ve likely never heard of Energous’ early adopters — companies like IDT International Limited, Qubercomm, Delight, and The Gokhale Method. But their products are real and useful. Delight and SK Telesys designed sound-amplifying earbuds and a wireless charging case that tap Energous’ near-field ( i.e., within 10 centimeters) charging tech. Austar Hearing Science and Technology has a hearing aid that recharges wire-free. And posture specialist Gokhale is working on a spine tracker that swaps pogo pins for a WattUp chip, allowing up to five sensors to draw power through the air from a single charging pad.

Above: Austar Hearing Science and Technology’s hearing aid.

Image Credit: Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat

Many of the integrations — particularly those involving smaller devices, like hearing aids — wouldn’t have been possible with existing solutions, Rizzone says. One of the most popular wireless charging standards, Qi, achieves inductive transfer through magnetic coils embedded in both the device and charger. They have to be perfectly aligned and laid flat against each other. Otherwise, it’s no go.

WattUp needs no such coils — its transmitters sense and communicate with receiver devices via Bluetooth Low Energy, and send power when requested by said devices. As long as compatible gadgets are within range of a transmitter, they’ll charge — regardless of their orientation or position. Better still, there’s no limit to the number of devices that can charge simultaneously.

That versatility likely played a role in convincing T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom, Qualcomm, and Vuzix to create concept products embedded with chips from Energous’ portfolio. Vuzix’s prototype Blade smart glasses have a charging case that supplies juice wirelessly. Qualcomm, for its part, showed off low-latency Locatum asset-tracking tags, up to 20 of which can be placed on a single charging pad.

Perhaps the most intriguing of the bunch, though, is Deutsche Telekom’s router. From the outside, there’s nothing to suggest it’s anything other than a stock gateway with a few built-in telephony features. But peel back the plastic housing and you’ll find an Energous mid-field transmitter onboard, which can charge things placed 8 to 12 inches from the router’s topmost point.

Above: Deutsche Telekom’s concept router.

Image Credit: Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat

“What we’re seeing is that customers [are] adding more and more SKUs because they’re familiar with technology,” Rizzone said. “They’re comfortable [that it] works, and they’re happy.”

It helps, of course that Energous’ chips don’t contribute much to the overall bill of materials — just a few dollars, Rizzone said — and afford greater freedom in product design. For example, smartwatches that charge with pogo pins can’t be hermetically sealed. Relegating charging to a wireless radio solves that problem.

Internet of things devices stand to benefit too, Rizzone said — things like thermostats, security cameras, and wall-mounted alarms. With WattUp, they wouldn’t need to draw power from a battery or an eyesore of a cable — they’d get it from a router placed a few feet away.

Devices won’t charge quickly, though, or from across a room. Rizzone says that far-field charging (that is to say, at distances of 30 feet or more) isn’t in the cards right now. It’s not that it isn’t possible — Energous says it’s achieved such in the lab — but that it’s impractical. Rizzone says that within the FCC’s mandated transmission limit, you’d see tens to hundreds of microwatts at best, a fraction of a fraction of the 7 watts some smartphones are capable of drawing.

That said, Energous isn’t abandoning the idea of high-power transmission. In the next year or two, it plans to roll out a near-field chip that can deliver up to 20 watts.

Above: Gokhale Method’s SpineTracker.

Image Credit: Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat

Energous’ forthcoming commercial lineup was a year in the making.

In April, it announced that Wireless Charging 2.0 — the latest generation of its platform, which can theoretically charge devices from up to 15 feet away — had received approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for short-range, near-field charging under the agency’s Part 18 rules. The news came months after U.S. regulators greenlit Energous’ mid-field charging transmitters, which can recharge compatible gadgets devices within a three-foot radius.

And in November, Energous launched the DA2223 receiver chip — at 1.7 x 1.4 x 0.5 millimeters, its smallest chip yet, a fraction of the size of a coin. It’s designed to couple with discrete components and small antennae, all of which together have a footprint small enough to fit in hearing aids, smartwatches, wireless speakers, and smartphones.

With the technological hurdles out of the way, Energous is turning its attention to the next roadblock: regulatory acceptance. While its WattUp near-field and mid-field chips have passed muster in the U.S., Europe, and over 100 other countries, South Korea’s Korea Communications Commission, China’s Certification and Accreditation Administration, and Japan’s Telecommunications Bureau have yet to give it the green light.

Of course, there’s competition. Ossia, which has raised more than $35 million to date, earlier this year teamed up with Walmart to pilot its wireless charging tech. And Powercast, a startup founded in 2003, has an at-a-distance wireless system that’s available in the form of a development kit.

But Rizzone firmly believes that Energous has them beat — because of its expanding partner ecosystem, the inroads its made with regulators, and the maturity of its technology.

“Let me make it clear that no wireless company is even our frame of reference,” Rizzone said.

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Sol Ng:

I think ey would go with power. Growing up as royalty ey already have all the money ey could want and love doesn’t rlly interest them. Power, though, comes with the sort of respect and legacy that Sol has always wanted. Ey want people to notice and care about em and power is the way to gain that reputation.

Vega Gokhale:

Vega would go with love for sure. All Vega wants is to hold onto and protect the people they care about and receive the same care in return. Money and power don’t interest them because it would be completely ineffective and unsatisfactory without someone to share it with.

Sabrina Barbeau-Furukawa:

She would probably go with love as well. Like Vega, all Sabrina had ever wanted is to be around people she loves. She longs for a sense of belonging and community. The money might be nice but she doesn’t need it and the responsibility that would come with so much power would make her anxious.

Dion Aiza-Barros:

The money, probably. Boy has some expensive tastes, not to mention his ingrained belief that money can solve just about any problem, at least temporarily. Power isn’t really his thing and love sounds nice but Dion probably couldn’t be happy poor, not without seriously leaning into his kleptomaniac tendencies anyway.

Blorbo Blursday #2

If your character had the choice between ultimate love, money, or power, what would they pick? Why? What would change their mind?

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