The promise of walking through your front door, placing your phone on a normal-looking table without any garish accoutrements, and effortlessly replenishing your phone's battery isn't the real world ...

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We might be in the midst of the wearables boom right now, but a safe bet for the next technology to take off in the next few years is wireless charging. Thanks to features from a handful of smartphone ...

After lots of perseverance from smartphone makers, wireless charging is finally starting to make an impact. Many big name phones now support the technology and companies like Starbucks are helping to ...

IKEA is best known for its handy home solutions and affordable flat-pack furnishings, but its new VÄSTMÄRKE collection brings its signature budget-friendly designs to the world of wireless chargers.

More and more phones and devices are able to be charged wirelessly these days, but that usually still requires a pad for each that takes up a power plug. Now, a Spanish start-up called Proton New ...

Ikea’s latest technology-based offering comes in the form of a wireless Qi charging pad that you fix under your tabletop. So instead of placing your compatible device directly onto the pad, you simply ...

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Placing your phone onto a desk and just watching it charge—no plugs or pads necessary—is amazing. But furniture with this built-in wireless charging technology is still few and far between. Wouldn’t ...

The Weekend Workshop is our weekly column where we showcase a badass DIY project that you can complete with minimal skills and expertise. Wireless chargers are amazing — they free you from fiddling ...

The first Qi2 wireless charger in a car cuts charging time in half, but not every phone is ready to take advantage of it ...