Wireless charging on the way, Qi will be the standard

By on Jul 26, 2010 at 10:30 PM
Hardware July 26, 2010

This weekend, the Wireless Power Consortium finalized specification for a low-power wireless charging standard. The new specifications will allow you to charge gadgets that draw up to 5 watts of power sans cords; most devices that charge over USB use 2.5 watts of power. The standard also calls for a third-party certification process that will allow gadget manufactures to brandish their device with the Qi logo. The purpose of this is simple: Qi logo bearing devices will work with other Qi logo bearing devices. Hit up the read link for all the nerdy details.

[Via ArsTechnica]

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  • Kyle

    Finally I can char my steaks from a distance!

    • The ugly guy who pops on the screen screaming in those videos

      Theres an app for that.

    • Dan Diemer

      “Wireless Charing”… Yah, that sounds about right.

  • Joel

    CharGing ?

  • Bob

    “Wireless charing”?

  • brian

    wireless charing? I can feel the burn across the room now, yay.

    • Toobis

      OMG misspelled word! Assemble the spelling army stat!

      Funny thing is the first spelling nazi to comment had the most witty comment

  • joshua Jefferson

    wireless charing? isn’t that what the iphone 4 does

  • Android

    I think he meant charring, not charing.

  • edward

    Funny, everyone raced to post about the misspelled word in the title if the articel.

    • WalterSobchak

      “Another important thing to know is that when white people read magazines and books they are always looking for grammar and spelling mistakes. In fact, one of the greatest joys a white person can experience is to catch a grammar mistake in a major publication.”

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  • X Glansburg

    This sounds dangerous. I hope the FCC thinks twice about allowing this.

  • http://piss charging?

    charging, i believe is the word.

  • Joness

    It’s spelled wrong….we get it already…

    • kerrhome

      Get what?

  • Kirk

    Wireless charing on the way?

    Must be one of those edumated Android users.

  • doug

    Charing? Why would you want to burn your wireless stuff?

  • TONY

    Spell check please.

  • muze

    actually, usb 2.0 devices use 5 watts. 5 volts x 1 amp =… you know. usb 1.0 and 1.1 used 500mA, 5 volts x .5 amp = your 2.5. nothing has used 2.5 in like 6 years. this is gonna be the same ol’ thing.

    unfortunately, until batteries get better, that’s about as good as it gets. these charging methods try to safely max out the rate at which the battery can charge for obvious reasons, and rapid chargers and all that just damage your battery.

    +1 for ultracapacitors.

  • Mike

    if only tesla didn’t have his funding cutoff

  • Jon

    editorial fail

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