Now this is a very interesting development from Intel that might be the beginning of a world changing type of event.
Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner demonstrated a Wireless Energy Resonant Link as he spoke at the California firm's annual developers forum in San Francisco.
Electricity was sent wirelessly to a lamp on stage, lighting a 60 watt bulb that uses more power than a typical laptop computer.
If this device is practical and cheap it may be the end of power cords as we know it. Also the idea of a recharging zone instead of a physical recharger may be coming soon to an airport or coffee shop near you. In fact the entire Starbucks may allow you to recharge your devices.
You might even be able to buy a home WERL and all of the devices in your home can operate without power cords. I envision a white block in every room that looks just like a UPC (with a few plugs in it for backward compatibility) connected to a wall outlet. The device may even be called the Intel WERL.
I think the term WERL might even be used as a general term going forward. So you would WERL devices instead of powering them on. So you would say "I WERLed my new IPhone at Starbucks." Or "crap, I don't get any WERL out here in the sticks so I plugged in my dusty old battery pack." Or "I hate going to Mozambique that place is a WERL dead zone so you have to bring your own Battery-pack WERL (or BP-WERL) everywhere you go"
Hmm, this could be a great time to buy some Intel stock and hold on for a very lucrative sounding licencing-based revenue scheme.
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