Almost on time, WildCharge have announced their first adapter for use with their WildCharger pad. The adapter is for the Motorola RAZR phone, so replace the back-cover of your RAZR with this little sucker, place on the pad and a-charging you will go.

WildCharge will be selling the pad and RAZR adapter as a bundle for US$89.99 - the adapter is available separately at US$34.99 but in theory no-one has the pad yet as this is the first adapter available. The next gizmo up for wildcharging is the Apple iPod Nano (in August), with its adapter priced the same as the RAZR’s but no bundle currently available. You can buy the pad separately at US$59.99, so if the pricing for the adpaters stays at around US$34.99 then for a pad with three adapters you’re looking at an outlay of around US$165 to get rid of a couple of trailing power leads.

If anyone out there has purchased or used one of these pads, share your thoughts with us all.

Source: Gizmodo

Despite Tesla lighting two hundred wireless light bulbs over a hundred years ago, we are still shackled by the power cable. The more gadgets we have, the more power leads we have trailing across the floor. Wireless technology has managed to abolish the network cable but still the power lead snakes it’s crazy path around our homes. Until now …

Well actually not quite yet, but on July 7th, (yes 7/7/07) there may be a solution to our trailing cable woes in the Wildcharger from, err, WildCharge. Apparently

No more will you have to deal with the clutter of cords, chargers, adapters and congested outlets for your mobile electronic devices. A single WildCharger™ is all you will need at your home, office or on the road. In fact, charging a mobile device will soon be as simple as placing it on a table…

The funky little WildCharger, which looks like a large mouse mat, blasts out power and juices up anything sitting on it. The pad can be rolled up for easy storage, but looks as if it would slip neatly into any laptop bag.

A gadget collector’s dream come true? Certainly their partner’s dream come true! But there has to be a catch, surely, I hear you say. Well, yes, at least initially you will need a WildCharger adapter for each device you wish to power up with the WildCharger. And despite offering a price range of US$39 to US$100 for the WildCharger there are no details on how much the adapters will cost.

However, the concept is great and this is a giant leap forward in removing almost all the power cables for your chargable devices - you’ll still need one for the Wildcharger. As device manufacturers come on board the need for adapters for the WildCharger and its kind will also disappear and we shall be shackled by the power cable no more!

Source: ComputerWorld