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Pi Charging — The world's first contactless, wireless charger.
Pi Charging is the world's first contactless, wireless charger for smartphones and tablets. Pi charges devices within a 1ft range in any orientation using magnetic resonance technology.
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Whether this works perfect or not at the moment, I applaud someone working towards and finding a solution to truly wireless charging. I look forward to following this to see it progress.
any chance to charge my wireless keyboard (or any other non-smart-devices those cannot stop charging themselves)
@__ricki Hey Yuhan! Not currently but these are great suggestions for the near future.
Wow this looks great. The charging station is even well designed, so I it be a nice addition to your room. Excited about this release!
@nadia_niky this is a really cool product. When will it be ready for market?
@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.
Can it charge the Apple Watch? And if it can, will it charge while I'm wearing it (and is that safe?)?
Ah, the catch is under the technology tab. You need their bulky case on your phone for this to work. So either you have to switch cases each time you want to charge, or put on their case when you get home. And you have to hope they release a case for every phone and tablet you have. And the charger + cases are probably going to be $$$. Great idea if you could work with manufacturers to embed this into phones, but as it stands... :/
@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.
@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.
@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
@tylerswartz Hey Tyler! Thanks for your question. The range of the device is a 1ft spherical radius.
Not the solution to the problem, unfortunately. With everything out right now I'm not sure how helpful this is.
This is awesome! I think about all those times I'm lying in bed with my phone connected to the charger...if the power cable doesn't nearly choke me to death, then I'm usually awkwardly trying to check my email or facebook on the edge of my bed, so my phone doesn't die.
Congratulations for presenting at Battlefield yesterday! IIRC, a case is not required on the iPhone X and iPhone 8. Is that right? One piece of feedback about your pitch, no pricing announcement was a bummer. I hope you come prepared with that if you make it to the finals. Good luck!
@jimmydouglas Thanks for watching our presentation Jimmy! We will have an announcement in the following weeks in regards to price.
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