@robjbye Ya everyone knows magnetic fields are bad for us! Pretty soon there will be a magnetic field that surrounds our planet and everyone will be cooked!!

@robjbye so It won't let the coffee go cold too? this seems interesting for that purpose...

@robjbye Hi Rob! Thanks for checking out our product. No, it does not act as a heater and cook humans. Pi uses a very weak magnetic field, the same type of field existing pad based chargers use. All our products follow existing FCC safety regulations.

@robjbye @nadia_niky how fast does it charge ? is it as good as Qi wireless chargers

@alteredorange Thanks for finding this out for us. Seems like cheating, to be honest. At that point I could just use a battery case.

@alteredorange It will only need a case until phone makers start incorporating the technology into the phones. Same way wireless charging currently works on the iPhone 7

@alteredorange I don't think that is correct. According to the linked article from Macrumors this works with any Qi enabled device. So this works with a lot of Android devices, with the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus that starts shipping on Friday and with the iPhone X that ships in November – and presumably with any other new device Apple will launch.

@_mochs I'd be all about that! I'm just going off what their site says. I'm assuming they need a special case to guide the magnetic field to the phone. If it works with any Qi enabled device that would be MUCH cooler!

@alteredorange Yeah. Not entirely sure either. They seem to be pretty clever in wording their stuff. They say you don't need a Qi enabled device because you can simply use their case. Which sounds a bit like it would work without the case if your phone supports Qi. But that might just be smart marketing speak. I guess we'll see when they announce more details.

Cons: I would perhaps start with the additional and much stronger magnetic fields you will be exposed to. I would not use this thing even if I got it as a present.

@jacqvon Hi Jacqueline! Thanks for asking. We're going to have another big announcement in a couple weeks and will reveal our shipping timeline then.

@hrantarzumanyan Thanks Hrant! Stay tuned for exact phone models.

@andreas_dias Hi Andreas! Thanks for comment, it's great to have people you saw our demo share their experiences here.

@janegale1 please do! Thanks for checking out our Product Hunt page.

@libby_ayres Hi Libby! We will be announcing price and shipping in the weeks to come!

@tylerswartz Hey Tyler! Thanks for your question. The range of the device is a 1ft spherical radius.

@dainiskanopa They've emphasized a breakthrough on their website. I'm a EE by training but that was a long time ago. I could be wrong but it looks like run of the mill engineering to me. We've seen lots of companies try to tackle this problem over the last few years. They all suffer from various problems, the biggest being charge rates I think. The orientation is a nice problem to solve but not a game changer IMO. Pads tend to be less intrusive than appliances too. My new car will have a charging pad.

@jpridgely Hey Justin! Thanks for your comment. Extending the range would be possible with changes to the current form factor.