At last one one charger to rule them all! I've been waiting for this for quite a while. In the States you're blessed with small sockets but in Hong Kong we've got ginormous UK plugs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS_1363) They take up a huge amount of real estate and when you consider all the stuff that you need to charge you either have to have a two foot long power strip devoted to everyone's charger or you need to swap out the chargers and hope that the octopus that you've created doesn't get tangled up and start collecting dust bunnies.
This device makes sense to me because I have to charge about 5 devices on any given day (my phone, my wife's phone, DSlite or my PSP, wife's PSP and Cowon X5L MP3 player) Each one needs a dedicated socket and each one is spinning my power meter whether it's working or not.
Further down the road I could see this as being a great technology for recharging medical implants or recharging cars while they're parked. There just seems to be a lot that you could do with this.
Medical implants and other hermetic non invasive applications is where induction charging has an application, this could not be done by the wildcharge approach
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At last one one charger to rule them all! I've been waiting for this for quite a while. In the States you're blessed with small sockets but in Hong Kong we've got ginormous UK plugs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS_1363) They take up a huge amount of real estate and when you consider all the stuff that you need to charge you either have to have a two foot long power strip devoted to everyone's charger or you need to swap out the chargers and hope that the octopus that you've created doesn't get tangled up and start collecting dust bunnies.
This device makes sense to me because I have to charge about 5 devices on any given day (my phone, my wife's phone, DSlite or my PSP, wife's PSP and Cowon X5L MP3 player) Each one needs a dedicated socket and each one is spinning my power meter whether it's working or not.
Further down the road I could see this as being a great technology for recharging medical implants or recharging cars while they're parked. There just seems to be a lot that you could do with this.
Medical implants and other hermetic non invasive applications is where induction charging has an application, this could not be done by the wildcharge approach