MIT team experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer, potentially useful for powering laptops, cell phones without wires

A team from MIT's Department of Physics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) has experimentally demonstrated an important step toward accomplishing a vision of the future. Realizing their recent theoretical prediction, they were able to light a 60W bulb from a power source more than two meters away; there was no physical connection between the source and the appliance. The MIT team refers to its concept as "WiTricity" (as in wireless electricity). The work will be reported in the June 7 issue of Science Express, the advance online publication of the journal Science

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