Why ever innovate when we can live with what we have now?

Correct, as you’ll see in one of my other posts, I was clearly mistaken about that particular fact. It is the tracking beacon that transmits such a low level of power.

That makes a lot more sense, you need very little power for a tracking beacon and it would be awfully wasteful to use full power all the time.

Good science, thank you. I went back and looked for some of the specs I had previously read about the device. It seems the “1/10,000th power” is in reference to the tracking beacon. But you are correct.

I have to correct your statement about wifi antennas, if you have a 10kW wifi antenna, the FCC is gonna be knocking at your door real quick. The transmitter limit for point to multipoint wifi bands is 1 Watt (30dBm) at the output, and 4 Watts (36dBm) EIRP with a 6db gain antenna. That’s mostly for non-consumer grade…

It’s actually not. At the power levels this puts out, there’s no evidence that there is any harm to organic matter. Beyond that, it uses time-reversal symmetry to actually point the waves in a direction of least resistance. That means, when the beacon recognizes that there is an obstruction to the device, it will…

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I think that's why we have a variety of manufacturers though? A company like Apple will spend far more on packaging then one like Dell.

Increasing safety standards prevent cars from being made with less material. Increasing salaries prevent college and housing to cost less. :(

It’s not true of every component that bigger is cheaper, but it’s true of many, especially in regards to batteries and power supplies, which make up a good amount of the guts in TVs/PCs/smartphones/etc. Plus, innovation in making things small is worthwhile, but there is always an opportunity cost, and perhaps we could…

This is why these components are made and shipped in bulk, and in most cases the components that make up these products are used in multiple product lines across multiple companies/industries. It is very costly to produce an entire product from raw materials, you would need to produce in the billions in order to pay…