http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwBGSm-Hl5A
It's been pointed out that it's not new tech. Yes Tesla was the first to come up with this amazing tech. There are numerous videos on Youtube that display and explain how this works. I will sumerize though.
Electrons are "accelerated" up to the levels of a radio frequency(no BlueTooth or WiFi protocols). This essentialy makes the overload of electron particles floating about on the radio waves safe. In simple examples ALL metal will pick up on the frequency and ground the electrons.
What RCA has done is manage to get the electron particles onto a specific low range fequency similar to those you can find on portable radio transimtable CD/MP3 players. We are talking in 2-4 meter range. They probably also managed to get it to the point where not all electrical devices/metal will pick this up. Just the RCA elctron frequency receiver.
This is not a battery as it is a wireless cord, similar to how WiFi is a wireless ethernet. I'm not saying there isn't some battery form inside. Likely there is so that control of electrical flow is possible or to if the electron amount is so low that it does "charge" the battery, but it really shouldn't be thought of like a battery.
Finally it's also likely that RCA built in numerous failures to make sure that you will have to buy them often. The reason the tech never went forward wasn't that it didn't work. It was that the electrical companies that were funding it found out there was no way to monitor consumption and thus never figure a way to make profit. 100 years of lost tech for the purpose of greed.
Edit: need to say this
WiFi and BlueTooth are not wireless technology. They are radio protocols for analog to digital communications. WiFi and BlueTooth still use the radio wave frequency for data tranmission. They are radio transmitors and recievers. They are still radio technology.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.