In other words, EVERYONE who lived through through the 20th century was ROBBED by the major energy concerns.

Exxxxcellent!

edit: My keyboard is getting a bit old and stICKy

I doubt that it would approach those figures unless you put it right on top of the wireless transmitter. However I suspect we'll see induction based charging long before this.

This will still be a bit clunky at first, since this device IS the battery/charging unit. Once the whole unit gets placed _within_ controllers, batteries, etc is when this technology has the potential to change the world.

It's a battery Jim but not as we know it. If your device will always be used within range of the transmitter then there won't be any need for a traditional battery. Unlike a mobile phone which you will be taking out of transmitter range all the time. Sounds cool.

So much for Yahoo's "don't by a PS3 because the battery in the controller will fail" advice. Next year there won't be a battery in the controller for it to fail on you.

Batteries are a bit of an environmental nasty, even the ones in wireless controllers, because you've eventually got to throw them out. Anything that removes the need for batteries and their chemicals without affecting useability of a device is a good move.

Imagine my electric lawn mower not needing to have a cord running from the house to the mower, or not having a battery that loses it's charge 7/8ths of the way through mowing the lawns.

If it ain't, the loss is on their part (assuming the $40 price tag is true...and that these things last more than a month).

Yeah I know, it's remote charging. Although they will most likely still require batteries as the current range for remotre charging is limited. This device seems to be able to use Wi-Fi, although there are other ways to do remote charging.

Also, the batteries in these things usually use Li-ion batteries, which are recycled fairly consistantly as far as I'm aware.

Chances are mobile phones will use the same technology. The first step is wire-less charging. I think some phones use magnetic chargers. The idea is you have a plater that you put your devices on and they all charge, but the charging is wire-less. This is being done to remove the need for standardized cords and the fact that people generally have several devices that require charging.

I thought the European Parliament passed a law requiring all cell phones sold within the EU to use a single format charging port by 2010 or 2011? I'm certainly looking forward to that day, though we'll still need multiple charge cables because we'lkl want to charge more than one thing at a time. It will be good when wireless charging achieves mass market penetration, so all re-chargeable products will incorporate it.

woah! very sci-fi tech

With some Desktops, "nettops" running at only 8watts of power and the Wii very low power consumption i can picture sometime years down the line when many devices in the house will be equipped with this instead of a power cord.

I want the battery from this Nokia Phone in a game controller:

Powered by  Coca Cola... Yes the phone works on a Soda...  So after gaming I would get a drink..

http://www.dezeen.com/2010/01/07/eco-friendly-phone-for-nokia-by-daizi-zheng/