What is WiTricity?

Imagine wireless power....or wireless electricity if you will.  Imagine being able to charge your cell phone WITHOUT physically plugging it in to a cell phone charger.

This technology is becoming a normal reality for the new company WiTricity,  by Marin Soljačić the inventor, as he was annoyed by his wife's Nokia cell phone that would beep whenever it needed charged.  There it lay, so close to an electrical outlet, the very thing it needed, yet it had no way of getting that electricity.

With support from his employer, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), started up WiTricity.

The idea is based off of coils that can turn electricity into magnetic energy, and then back to electricity.

Is wireless electricity coming to a home near you?  Maybe sooner than we think.

If you'd like to learn more about the basics of wireless electricity, check out WiTricity's website.