Recharging Smartphone? No Way!

You bet your biggest nuisance is recharging your smartphones. Batteries just don't last long enough. Now, believe it or not, your headache is over with an innovation to have your smartphones recharged wirelessly!

Japan's KDDI and their affiliate US Ossia, Washington, exhibited a product called Cota at the Consumer Electronics Fair in Las Vegas CES. The product is now the talk of the town.

No wonder. The gimmick, Real Wireless Power, is only a trash-bin-size power transmitter that charges smartphones and dry cells within 10 meters radius. Ossia's CEO Hatem Zeine says a smartphone can be charged up to 20-25% in an hour. "Multiple terminals can be charged simultaneously - meaning any number of smartwatches as well", he adds.

The power transmitter detects objects to charge. The live demonstration at the fair site shows the path of signals blocked momentarily by a hand reopens in a matter of a few seconds.

The 2.4 GHz belt is adopted just as in Wi-Fi and the Cota-compatible chip will be made available for 1-2 dollars when mass-produced. Toshitake Amemiya of KDDI says Japan's Radio Law needs readjustment to adopt the 2.4 GHz belt and a series of "political moves" to have terminal makers mount the chips on their products.

The product can really revolutionize business in many ways - from daily bother of having to recharge your gadgets often enough, of having to put aside pressing contact-making, etc. It can take wires and batteries out of the picture. If your device can use Wi-Fi, this Cota leverages its Wi-Fi antenna to receive power.

Stretch your imagination and you can foresee broad possibilities in medicare. Suppose Cota's wireless power maintaining mini electronic devices constantly powered, so that they can be always on and connected, etc. etc.

Recharging - no way!