Ingenious Innovations

Background Information: Wireless charging isn't necessarily a new concept, but within the past few years, it's application has become more and more practical. Wireless charging is used to charge many newer phone models and eliminates the need for cables, while also providing a source of efficiency and easier accessibility.  Besides from charging your phone, wireless charging is used for many other purposes in healthcare, automotive and manufacturing industries. Wireless charging offers increased mobility in these industries and could provide advances allowing IoT devices to receive power from across the room. How It Works: Wireless charging functions by transferring energy produced by the charger to a receiver on the back of a phone through electromagnetic induction. The charger creates this energy with an induction coil that produces an alternating electromagnetic field. The receiver in the back of a phone converts the energy in the electromagnetic field of the

Background History: Taxis provide a great source of transportation and make the lives of people in large cities much easier, but what if I told you that flying taxis could be coming to a city near you within the next decade? For the past two or three years, there have been numerous air taxi concepts revealed to the public, many of which were extremely unrealistic and had improbable chances of success. Unlike previous concepts, Bell revealed its realistic air taxi concept, Bell Nexus, at the Consumer Electronics Show in January and gave us hope for a new generation of transportation.  How it Works:  The Bell Nexus has six tilting fans that face horizontal during take-off and tilt to a vertical position during flight. Rather than being an entirely battery-relying electronic flying machine, the Bell Nexus incorporates a hybrid system that utilizes a singular turbine engine to produce electricity for the six individual tilting fans and the batteries that power them.  This flyi

Background History:  There have been many breakthroughs in artificial intelligence over the past few years. Although the use of artificial intelligence is supposed to be beneficial to humanity, developments like Deepfake AI are proving the malicious potential of artificial intelligence.  The term deepfake refers to forged, computer-generated video and audio that is difficult to discern from authentic, unchanged content. Deepfake AI is essentially the equivalent of Photoshop, but for video. Deepfake has been utilized to reproduce unsettling audios of presidential voices and to completely delete objects once present in video.  How It Works: Deepfake depends on the the use of generative adversarial networks (GANs), which includes two subset artificial intelligence systems. One system generates content and the other guesses or determines whether images are real or counterfeit. The two AI adversaries progressively get better and better at their function over time, and event