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Nissan's Leaf-Charging Wireless Pad Could Signal An Industry Surge

Nissan has a new trick: the wireless charging of its electric vehicle. Is it enough to power EV industry sales?READ»

WIRE WARS   |  Comment

Tangled, Too: Why A Wireless World Will Never Exist

Forget Wi-Fi, forget Bluetooth, forget NFC and even wireless charging--that rat's nest of wires behind your computer desk is going nowhere fast. No matter what a recent Apple patent portends. READ»

Nokia Leads Ride Pimping Initiative With Apps, Smartphones, NFC, Wireless Charging

Nokia and a long list of car and consumer electronics firms just agreed to form the Car Connectivity Consortium--a global effort to harmonize the electronic magic that will power your future car, and which would fill K.I.T.T. with envy.READ»

WANTED: Case-Mate Hug

The Case-Mate Hug is a wireless inductive charger, a lot like the Powermat or Palm's Touchstone. Inductive chargers let you plop your gadget down onto a special surface for charging, rather than fiddling around with wires--and the ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY   |  Comment

Wireless Electricity Is Here (Seriously)

I'm standing next to a Croatian-born American genius in a half-empty office in Watertown, Massachusetts, and I'm about to be fried to a crisp. Or I'm about to witness the greatest advance in electrical science in a hundred years. ...READ»