Chargers and cords can be unplugged and tossed as wireless energy transfer is becoming better able to serve consumers. Marin Soljačić, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, began developing wireless energy because he was tired of being awakened by his wife’s cell phone alerting her about a low battery charge. Over the past six years, the work of Soljačić and a team of MIT researchers and engineers has led to their establishing of a wireless electricity company called WiTricity.

‘Wireless’ is a pretty fashionable word these days. Go back fifty years and it just meant radio, but in this day and age it’s a buzzword. It started off with wireless landline phones, then we got wireless internet and wireless speakers. Wires are untidy and ugly and the less we see of them the better…

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A startup says its innovative system can deliver power to devices up to 7 feet away Katie Hall’s ideal home doesn’t have electrical outlets, but the structure she envisions will be outfitted with the same kinds of appliances found in just about any modern dwelling. The only difference? The electronics—like wide-screen TVs, refrigerators, computers and…

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Think about it. In order for anything to work, it needs to be plugged in either all the time or at some point — cell phones, computers, stereos, TV, hair dryers, blenders, vacuums… But what if nothing had to be plugged in anymore, because electricity was “mobile,” could go anywhere, without all the wires?

Have you ever had the battery on your phone, computer, or tablet die just when you most needed it? Well, imagine tossing your dead cell phone on a coffee table and coming back to a fully-charged device a couple of hours later.

Device-makers align around a wireless charging technology that works through tables to charge multiple devices—and it’s expected in products later this year.