Got an Intel-powered laptop, tablet or phone? In the future, you may be able to charge it without wires over distance thanks to a new agreement between Intel and WiTricity. Read more »
Two major wireless charging groups, the Alliance for Wireless Power and the Power Matters Alliance, are banding together with their standards, which will make life easier for consumers who want to… Read more »
Instead of induction, WiTricity uses resonance to recharge devices wirelessly over several inches or even though objects. The company demonstrated this, along with a magnetic resonance repeater, and announced a wireless… Read more »
Wireless giant Qualcomm has jumped into the electric vehicle market by acquiring the assets of a company, called HaloIPT, out of New Zealand that has developed wireless electric car charging tech. Read more »
General Electric and its venture capital partners have announced the winners of the $63 million second round of its Ecomagination Challenge — you know, the one that was focused on “home… Read more »
Wireless charging is an appealing concept for many of us who loathe the sight of messy power cords or the need to find outlets in public. Carmakers like it, too. Toyota… Read more »
Wireless charging — the ability to toss your cell phone on your table and have it charge without a plug — has for years failed to reach its disruptive potential. But… Read more »
MIT spinout WiTricity wants to make charging electric vehicles plug-free, by simply parking them on top of wireless charging systems set into garages or parking spots — and it has landed… Read more »
After years of hope (and no little amount of hype), wireless power is finally getting into consumer hands. However, the technology that is showing up on trade show floors and store… Read more »
The hype cycle around wireless power has been gathering a charge ever since Intel (s intc) wowed folks at its IDF conference last year with a demo of wireless charging. Then… Read more »