is Tesla's vision of wireless power transmitting finally coming to life?

[Darren Dirt]

Dell Laptop Fails to Excite With Wireless Charger

The Dell Latitude Z's wireless charger may provide relief for a subset people who despise power bricks and cords, but for the rest of us, it's an empty "wow" gesture that most users won't use.

Dell claims that the Latitude Z is the first laptop with wireless docking and an inductive wireless charger, which uses a pair of coils--one in the laptop and another in a special charging stand--to generate an electromagnetic field.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/172806/dell_laptop_fails_to_excite_with_wireless_charger.html
^ read mainly for the comments at the end.


also see:
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/40880/97/
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/engineer-named-macarthur-fellow-for-work-on-wireless-power-and-selffocusing-lasers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_energy_transfer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Tower#The_transmission_of_electrical_energy


So what do ya think? Cool tech? Or brain-cooking danger?

[Lazybones]

Palm Pre already launched with this, and wild charge has been offering ad-ons for mobile devices.

This however may be an indicate it is going main stream.