Apple soon to develop wireless battery chargers for iPhone, iPod and iPad?

According to Wall Street Journal Apple is developing a new way for charging their mobile devices. It could be that what they are up to is some process fro wireless charging o devices. And while this isn’t a completely new technology, as some efforts are already being done by others in the industry, it certainly isn’t mature at all. For example the Palm Pre handheld was made with an induction based charger which allowed users to recharge the device by putting it on a special charging device. The downside of such solution is that the device has to be connected to the actual charger in order for the power transmission to happen. But there are more interesting solutions which could provide better options for wireless charging. A small Massachusetts based startup named WiTricity has being developing wireless electricity transmission which has drawn attention from many big names including Apple. WiTricity is working on a completely new model of energy transmission which could send energy up to a couple of meters away and which works different than the well known induction method. This technology originating in MIT has being featured in a 2009 TED talk.

Apple has been linked with this technology through a recent patent submission on wireless electricity for local computing. The patent was submitted by Apple’s lawyers in May of this year. Apple wants to implement a technology where your iMac computer could become the energy source for charging your mobile devices like iPhone or iPad. The technology should be safe and tested before further implementation.

While Apple patents are not always a good pointer for Apple’s future plans, this patent info combined with more recent rumors on Apple developing wirelesses charging for their iOS devices, could be a relatively safe guess. What do you think? Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could recharge our iPhones or iPads just by leaving them close to our iMacs?

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