What wireless electricity products are you looking forward to?

[Concillian]

I can't seem to find the article at the moment. it will be interesting to see how it pans out and how much they charge for the recharge pad etc. I'm really not sure what price point would over-write the minor hassle of changing batteries or using wired recharge methods.

Well I think the ultimate is not having power cords for even fairly major appliances. But then they're tethered via other cords... the Xbox might not have a power cord or controller wires, but would still need to get video to the TV & sound to the receiver or TV. And I don't see wireless video transmission happening anytime soon.

For things that use batteries now, it's not that big a deal. I have a small child and what seems like a hundred battery operated toys to go with my various remotes, wiimotes, and such.

I've found that since the development of low self discharge NiMH cells that rechargables are quite convenient now. I just need to have 4-8 extra of each size (I actually have more than that because of the rate of growth of battery operated toys a 16 month old child seems to foster,) then I charge them as they come out and they will happily sit there charged for months, and be useful, unlike the old style NiMHs which would be practically useless if you let them sit on the shelf a month.

Since the shift to the LSD batteries (yeah, that doesn't sound right, but I don't want to keep typing out Low Self Discharge), the wiimotes feel just like they have alkalines in them. I mean how long the batteries last. I really love them, and they aren't any more expensive than other NiMH batteries.