I get lot of thoughts through out the day. And I keep notes about interesting ideas or problem worth solving. I like to think maybe one day I work on them and start business something. But now I think I am wasting ideas by keeping my them secret. Whom am I kidding? One day one day I will work- that never comes. So now onwards, I am going to put my ideas in public. So that other "Action oriented (talk less) people" here on HN may work on it rather me sitting on it and make world better place- small improvements. I hope other people will do the same. I am not interested in credit or money. Idea came to me from universe and I want to put it back to universe :)<p>My idea:<p>charging table cloth that will sit on your work table and charge everything that will be put on it- exactly like wireless charger. Mobile, laptop, earplug, fitness tracker - anything with bottom. No more charging cables or something.
Does that work like the plastic tape electric fences?<p>If you are fencing horses or similar animals today you probably use plastic tapes or ropes that are embedded with metal fibers.<p>You might look at one and think there's not much metal but I think the zap feels stronger from the tape than from the old fashioned wires and the animals seem to agree.<p>In that application there isn't a lot of current, but it is charging up the fence as a capacitor and storing even more energy in the plastic dielectric than would a wire in open air. The voltage might be able to jump a tiny airgap, so you don't need a "good" connection by normal standards.<p>That tape usually works between you (e.g. as an animal) and the ground and there is a return path to the charger through a metal stake driven into the earth.<p>I have thought about making a "Thundershock Pikachu" plush that uses two strips of that of that tape to be the positive and negative if it doesn't like the way you handle it.<p>Are you imagining something that works like that but scaled for charging phones?