Venture Creators Blog

According to an article published in the MIT Technology Review, 3 MIT scientists are working on a way to charge batteries without wires, using magnetic induction. This is something Nikola Tesla first theorized more than 100  years ago.

Pretty neat, but the real deal-killer may be in its applications, as one commenter points out:

I recall 2 earlier startups, Mobilewise and Splashpower, that tried to go after this market in some similar fashion. They both never got much traction. The basic difficulty is that you are solving a $2 problem (power cables) with a $100 solution (base station & receivers).

It might never make it into the commercial world for powered mobile devices. But a properly equipped ceramic cup might be designed that would keep your tea and coffee hot between sips all day long! Maybe in the entire Starbucks! Heck, even warm your ski boots and mittens while waiting in the lift line. Actuate all sorts of buzzing and beeping things as you walk by. The mind boggles.

Yep. The mind boggles. And the applications seem endless.