Imagine your battery to be charged by a table, by just being placed on the table’s surface. Sounds fantastically fancy? Well, it’s not, as Panasonic has just unveiled a prototype of their advanced yet convenient solar powered inductive charging table, at the recent Retail Tech Expo held in Tokyo. It is touted to be able to power up devices simply by placing them on the table.
Inductive charging basically uses the electromagnetic field to transfer energy between two objects, and appliances using this technology have been there in the electronic market for years. But the novelty element in this product is that it allows direct connection with the device to be charged, when placed on the conspicuously black, square-grid charging panel. This direct power transfer mechanism in effect circumvents the need for coupling or even other alterations and paraphernalia.
The convenient attribute of practicality endowed in this innovative contraption is quite evident, especially in relation to spatial elements such as canteens, fast food areas and coffee shops. On their way to office, or being on their lunch break, one can just place their mobile battery on the table surface, for it to be automatically charged wirelessly. And at the end of it we should also not forget about the green essence of this technology, regarding its utilization of zero-emission, clean solar power.
Source: JapanTrends
