I was at the store today and I saw this. At first I was a little skeptical, but it looks interesting. What do you all think?

Omg sick! I can charge my Nintendo DSi with it, and without any wires!!!

It's good when your on the go and you wanna charge something, but I need to see the prices of it before I would ever consider getting one.

It's coming out on my birthday! <3

It looks like a great idea, but I think most people (including myself) would rather keep three different cords than pay the $99 for it.

What's it called, induction charging or something?

I think the Palm Pre has that built in, something like that. A lot of higher end/business line laptops are also doing the wireless charging. Seems like a good idea, although I don't know how fast it would charge compared to wired.

Yeah, its pretty expensive. $99 for the mat, then another $40 for each charging pack. I'm not saying its worth buying, just thought it was interesting.

Definitely a cool technology. In the next five years I wouldn't doubt that it becomes standard.

Especially for green cars. Just having mats in the ground is so much easier than plugging cars in.

I just saw a presentation at that one tech conference (Where they introduce cool new ideas, like the little camera/projector you wear...), pretty cool. Powering a HDTV from 20 feet away

True enough, except the only part of the vehicle that contacts the ground directly (the tires) is made of non-conducting vulcanized rubber.

It doesn't need direct contact, it can charge over short distances. You ignored the second part of his post where he said someone powered a HDTV from 20 feet away. The problem is getting enough electricity fast enough to the car. I doubt the technology is that powerful yet.

I'm thinking about uses inside the house. Outlets could become old technology. Imagine powering anything without a cord! Just turn something on and it receives power from one of several units positioned around your house. I wonder if the energy can be transmitted like sound waves, spreading everywhere, or more like a laser... If it's like a laser, that could cause problems for powering things that move around, such as iPods, but TV's could still be cordless.

I remember seeing this (Or something similar) on the gadget show an age ago, if it wasn't so pricey I'd love to get one.

Must be pretty inefficient too, when you think of the amount of energy being wasted as opposed to the much smaller contact area of wires.

I'll keep going with cords. This is cool but really unnecessary...

Personally, wires ftw. I used to have a wireless mouse and I hated it, that thing ate batteries like potato chips.

What's wrong with having a few more wires to charge your things? And the whole 'sending electricity trough the air'-thing how healthy can that be?

It depends on a few things. There's constantly energy all around you, such as TV signals, radio waves, cell phone signals, etc. It has the potential to be dangerous, but I'm sure the developers of this technology thought about that.

They have a great commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Hy02V5zrY...layer_embedded#