Mobile users must wait for wireless power
Mobile device users will have to wait at least another five years before they can hope to cut the electricity power cord and have their laptops or mobile phones charged wirelessly, says an IDC analyst.
Early this month, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US unveiled a new way of sending power to devices via magnetic induction remotely. The method uses a charging device dubbed "WiTricity", which eliminates the need for wires.
Bryan Ma, IDC's director for Asia-Pacific personal systems research, told ZDNet Asia in a phone interview that wireless power "makes a lot of sense", in theory.
Ma said that even though the network and USB connections are now wireless, "there is still one major wire that technically still chains us to the desk, and that one wire is electricity".
