Toshiba is demonstrating at CES an Android tablet in a full aquarium. The tablet itself contains no battery but gets its power wirelessly from a structure on the outside of the glass.
The immersed tablet, the Toshiba AT100, which earlier this year came out. According to an employee of Toshiba, the demonstration is not intended to the water resistance of the tablet to show up, but turns on the power supply. The tablet does not have a battery of its own. On the outside of the glass is a device placed via magnetic coils energy transfer through the water, to the tablet.
Such techniques are already used to the wireless charging of smartphones possible. This is a phone with a custom battery and back cover on a surface which is provided with magnetic coils. Through the magnetic field then the charge of the battery. It is not known whether, when, and in what way, Toshiba used the technology in its products to integrate.
