What a total piece of crap!!!! Does not work like pictured unless you have a specific phone which requires purchase of an adapter. You don't know about the misleading ads and appearance till you open the box and find that it takes more effort to charge other phones than to just use the regular charger.

I just don't see the point as you still have to plug a reciever into your device, if your going to go to the trouble of doing that then why not just plug it into a normal charger?

Ok so it saves on plug sockets but I would rather just buy an extension....

This technology will only be worth something when the induction circuitry is built into our gadgets as well.

If you can just set your gadget down on a charging mat without having to fuss around with adapter doohickeys, that's something to run out and buy straight away.

Diver, when using a powerstrip, you still need a wire attaching every device. With this, you don't. Plus, the powerstrip takes more room. To me, getting rid of the clutter makes a difference. It's not just because I love gadgets (and yes, I do). Putting all the discussions aside, I simply find it convenient.

Exactly what does this solve?

Your device still has to be fixed on a location and there are actually more steps involved in charging the device.

For example, with a cellphone you can leave the charger plugged in the wall and just bend down to pick the cable and plug it. Or, just get a USB cable and plug the end in the fron USB drive.

With this device, you have to get the right adapter for the device you want to charge (and program it with the needs of the device before), plug the adapter in the cellphone and then place the adapter on the charger.

Heck, it's even worse - with a regular wall charger you can actually pick up the phone and talk to it while it's charging.

So lets see you put lots of copper wire in a coil (several times more than you would need for a wire) so you can transmit power over the air less efficiently than a wire.

so you waste more copper and you waste more power,as well as making another chunk of plastic, just so you dont have to look at a wire.

Josh, you just described what is pretty much a $5 powerstrip.

you are focusing on the drawbecks and no looking at the advantages.If you have multiple mobile devices (I have a Blackberry, a Nokia phone and two iPods)then you can charge them all in one place, with one wire, using one outlet. For years we've been complaining about all the chargers and all the wires and now there is a solution. It my not be perfect yet, but it's a hell of a lot better than what I had only 3 weeks ago.

its a intresting concept, but not worth it, first off this review should of been done with the proper accessories, such as iphone, blackberry, nintendo DS, 2nd you have to buy the Powermat for $100 then you pay another $29.99 - $39.99 for each device that will use the power mat, and forget those accessories like cases that you may have bought or will buy to protect your device. I'ts just not worth spending $150 - $500+ (depending on have many devices in your household) for the convience of not having to plug it in.

This isn't going to be convenient until they do away with the need to put an adapter onto the device needing to be charged. Any idiot can see that.

Its like a beta...they have a 'wireless pad' that you can put an adapter on and plug in a usb cable? Talk about going the long route.

I for one won't be paying to make this technology a standard, they need to work something out with the vendors themselves.

Totally, and utterly pointless!
You have to plug in a adaptor to your device to get it to work with the plate? so why not just skip that phase out...and an expense and simply plug in the charger!

Ok, if every device out there used a uniform system of charging so you just dropped it on and hey presto, charging. That would be fair enough. But charging everything this was is just a waste of effort, money, and time.

Just to be clear: if you leave a phone or other device with a LiPo battery on charge for longer than necessary, it _will_ stop charging at the right time. This is certain because LiPo batteries will suffer irrevocable and inevitable damage if they are overcharged so their chargers _must_ prevent this automatically. When this happens, a modern mains charger employing switching technology will waste very little energy; probably much less in a 24 hr period than the leakage from a cordless charger during the hour or two needed for a simple routine charge.

And another thing:- why are we not told the frequency at which these things operate.