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Large metallic field coil (to use with the generator of your
choice; Van de Graaff, Tesla, etc.) disguised as wallpaper.
Outlet adapters for devices.
But who would install it, electricians or decorators?
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Turns the whole house into a bug zapper. |
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*Swirls dervish-like through the abode with a lit stun gun*
-- My impression of a Tazmanian firefly. |
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Not recommended for those with pacemakers. |
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or those who want to take their credit cards inside their house! |
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Would it make your hair stand on end? You could really freak your friends out the first time they came to see your new decor. I'd recommend a Fire and Brimstone or Haunted Carnival motif. Ooh, and showers would scare me! |
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You'd want it to work by induction though. |
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It wouldn't work with a Van de Graff generator, since that just produces a static field which is useless. Really, you'd need to feed it AC. And Tesla coils wouldn't really do much for you; all they do is transform AC from low to high frequencies. IMHO, simple 60Hz mains current would be just fine. |
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Your wallpaper could contain a great many coils; the central axis of each would be perpendicular to the wall, and they could be stacked honeycomb-style. This would produce a time-varying magnetic field perpendicular to the wall, which would induce an alternating current in any wire parallel to the wall. Then, any device can get power just by including a coil that can be oriented with its axis perpendicular to the wall (or three, arranged something like the coordinate axes, so that one is always perpendicular to the wall). |
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