(CNN) -- Electronics such as phones and laptops may start shedding their power cords within a year.

 

That's the prediction of Eric Giler, CEO of WiTricity, a company that's able to power light bulbs using wireless electricity that travels several feet from a power socket.

 

WiTricity's version of wireless electricity -- which converts power into a magnetic field and sends it sailing through the air at a particular frequency -- still needs to be refined a bit, he said, but should be commercially available soon.

 

Link to CNN Story.

Pff. Tesla did this a century ago!

Pff. Tesla did this a century ago!

 

If Tesla told me how to never have to plug a laptop or cell phone or iPod into an outlet again I'd be Fan #1, despite all the cr@ppy music they have put out.

 

Sounds great, but I have concerns about the radiation. Most signals flying around nowadays are very weak in energy levels. This is a much higher level of concentrated magnetic energy, which therefore has a much higher level of radiation associated with it. If it starts becoming prolific, you just seriously upped the amount of radiation flying around.

 

A professor I had in MBA school was associated with this somehow or another (business planning).

Pff. Tesla did this a century ago!

 

I was totally going there...

I was totally going there...

A century ago? You mean Tesla actually pulled off time travel too?

If Tesla told me how to never have to plug a laptop or cell phone or iPod into an outlet again I'd be Fan #1, despite all the cr@ppy music they have put out.

 

How ironic was it that they had an album where they called themselves an acoustic band?

It would be interesting, but I'd have the same concerns as NSS. I remember reading about a "charging pad" technology a few years ago that you'd just toss your phone or whatever on and it'd charge without plugging in.