Surface Charging

A few days after the new year, and buried after the Capitol Riots, a patent by Apple for wireless charging surfaces built into Macbooks had come out. It would put charging surfaces and backs of Macbooks.

I’ve had wireless charging on a phone since the Samsung S6 and I’m a fan. It’s been a lifesaver when water has leaked into the USB port and prevented charging. Wireless charging continued to work.

However, one of the drawbacks was always time. It took forever to charge. That’s not the case anymore.

Wireless Qi and now the new Apple MagSafe are much faster at charging, meaning that port-less solid devices are not far away. However, it seems like other appliances could benefit from either built in charging surfaces or the ability charge wireless.

Wireless charging coffee mugs, remotes, kettles, thermometers, shavers, nose hair trimmers… anything that would normally take AAAs or larger… these can all be Qi’d if there are more surfaces for them. As range and durability increase, especially the orientation of the object placed on them, the higher the likelihood of mass adoption of wireless charging.