http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6129460.stm
This startling proposition of genius is brought to you by the smartest man you’ve never heard of, Nikola Tesla. He has been dead for something like 100 years.
Had his funding not been cut back in the day, this might be how power got to your house today.
This guy is so awesome, and so un-recognized outside of the engineering world, that you may find it shocking that I agree with this line from the wikipedia: ‘Contemporary admirers of Tesla have deemed him “the man who invented the twentieth century.”‘
Anyway, wirelessly recharging things would be sweet as hell. Especially if they arrived at ONE, and only ONE STANDARD for these things so we wouldn’t have to buy like 50 different adapters to charge the iPod, cell phone, digital camera, laptop, etc. I hate proprietary connectors….it makes my job harder and annoys me at home.