Electrical cords, adapters, and cell phone chargers may soon be history if it’s up to one West Michigan company, and that could be just the beginning of the technological changes they’re working to create.
According to excerpts from the story:
LONDON — Wireless power specialist Fulton Innovation has integrated its eCoupled technology into a kitchen blender to demonstrate the versatility of the technology.
The blender works without a power cord or cable by simply placing it on an eCoupled-enabled countertop or work surface. The company says that high-powered kitchen devices like blenders, grills, and coffee makers often require kilowatts of power and are thus a a much greater technological challenge than low-powered devices such as mobile phones and MP3 players that only need five watts or less.
Fulton, a subsidiary of the giant Amway Corporation(Ada, Michigan), says it is working with many companies, such as Motorola, Leggett & Platt, and Herman Miller, to make power and charging cords obsolete in everything from cell phones to power tools.
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