Traditional chargers are a constant annoyance. It’s an extra piece of kit you need with you if you’re taking your laptop out of the house and can’t risk running out of battery. They’re typically device-specific, meaning you can’t just borrow a charger unless it happens to belong to the same model of laptop you use (though USB Type-C may fix that). Worst of all, the fact they’re in constant use means that they can often wear out and have to be replaced, leaving you without your laptop in the meantime.
Wireless charging is the sort of functionality that might not sound too exciting, but in practice could remedy a lot of the frustrations that wired chargers are responsible for. Placing your laptop on a surface and seeing its battery readout begin to fill up still seems like the realm of science fiction — but there are organizations working towards the goal of it becoming an industry standard.
The Alliance for Wireless Power, more commonly known as A4WP, are one such group. They’re backing technology known as Rezence, and we asked A4WP president Dr. Kamil Grajsky for his thoughts on how it will succeed in bringing wireless charging to the masses in a way that other projects have failed to.
With wireless charging, you could fuel your laptop just by sitting it on your desk.
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