Within three years wireless electricity on the market

That immense, gigantic genius that was Nikola Tesla built a tower, the Wardenclyffe Tower, in the middle of Long Island: an installation, he said, capable of transmitting electricity without the need for wires. The project (with the associated mysterious fire) foundered among a thousand mysteries even though Tesla had already transmitted remote energy in other experiments, and since then the project was shelved. More than a century later it's still a big hunt: big companies (Toyota, Intel, Samsung, Foxconn) and small startups (WiTricity, ProxybyPower) have... Read more