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This is an intriguing story on the BBC website (Physics promises an end to plugs and cables for your laptop):

The tangle of cables and plugs needed to recharge today’s electronic gadgets could soon be a thing of the past.

US researchers have outlined a relatively simple system that could deliver power to devices such as laptop computers or MP3 players without wires.

The concept exploits century-old physics and could work over distances of many metres, the researchers said.