WildCharge-cCmpatible Mobile-Device Recharger
The concept is overpowering: For $60, you get a thin pad that’s
about the size of a normal mouse pad (8 by 6 inches, or 20 by 15 centimeters). Its surface is overlaid by 12 shiny chrome stripes. Each day when you arrive home, you just drop your cellphone, iPod and BlackBerry directly on this small mat. They link to it solidly with a subtle magnetic click and you wonder as they begin loading mechanically.
Now, WildCharge is not the only company that has been engaging the dream of cordless-recharging surfaces on desks, kitchen counters and hotel-room bureaus. A number of companies are processing it -or have gotten out of business trying.
WildCharge, however, is the first company to convey such a product to market. Its competitors are trying to merged something called wireless inductive power, where speedily changing magnetic fields transfer the power. That’s how cordless electric soup-strainers get recharged.