Qi Wireless Power Is Now A Standard

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The whole wireless power issue is an interesting one, no mistake there, but there are plenty of problems with it. The biggest of them is that some devices won’t work on some chargers. The Wireless Power Consortium, meanwhile, is working to make that problem a whole lot less prevalent, and to that end, has announced the Qi standard.

The Qi standard, for its part, consists of three documents that detail specific “interface, performance and compliance requirements”. Devices are required to operate with less than five watts, though there are folks looking to amp that up a bit so you can use your tablets and laptops and suchlike on the Qi standard too.

And lest you roll your eyes and think that only pointless crap gadgets and knockoffs rolling out of China will be the only ones on the Qi standard, think again: big names are involved with the Wireless Power Consortium, like the Nokia and Research in Motion, the guys behind BlackBerry.

So not too far down the road, you may be able to pick up one charging station to set all your gear on at night and, by morning, discover that everything has charged, as if by magical pixies. Sounds like a plan to me!