TechHive: Wall power outlets are so 2012

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Aug 24th 2013, 18:43, by , Computerworld

In the future, your phones, tablets and wearable computing gadgets won't come with chargers—they'll use inductive chargers built into desks, kitchen counters, bedside tables, cars, and other surfaces. Just placing a device on any convenient surface will charge it.

This future will be great for us lazy people, and there are environmental benefits as well.

More than one-third of the "stuff" that comes with your smartphone—plastic, wiring, and electronics—is in the charger.

Each phone has its own personal charger destined inevitably for the landfill or an environmentally unfriendly recycling center.

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