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Any idea why people aren't building inductive charging into their devices yet? The tech has been around for years, and the only people using it are supplying special cases for your devices to make the darn stuff work.



Speaking of which my Palm Pre II came with inductive back by default - just had to get the Touchstone charger and its charging inductively on my desk :)

Once Touchpad is out that will be the second device - strange though that it hasn't become THE way to charge.


I can't imagine that the efficiency is all that good. (I kind of hope this doesn't take off--it isn't like it is easy to meet our electrical needs today, so I don't see any need to add more inefficiencies) Plus, inductive charging implies changing electric fields, which implies magnetic fields, which might do nasty things if there is a hard drive nearby




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