New technology that allows for wireless charging of electronic devices
could make a rarity of cord jungles like the one in this image, captured
this year at a power generation station in New York City during the
blackout caused by Hurricane Sandy.
A mobile phone that charges in your pocket, a flat-screen TV that
needs no power cord, a car fueled by a cordless panel in the floor: In a
nondescript building just outside Boston, these and other applications
of wireless electricity signal a future with fewer snaking cables.
WiTricity,
a company spun off from research at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), aims to redefine how people use energy, making it
possible to power devices without ever plugging them into an outlet. In
WiTricity's lab, various devices run on power transmitted via electric
coils through the air.
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