Earlier this year, the parent company of Motorola, Lenovo,  had teased its new concept for an air-to-air charging system that can charge multiple devices remotely. Now, the company has announced a partnership that will further advance the development to make this technology practically available for everyone.

Motorola has partnered with GuRu Wireless to add support for over-the-air wireless charging to the company’s smartphones. For those who are unaware, GuRu specializes in customizable over-the-air power systems that use “millimeter-wave integrated circuits, modules and proprietary Smart RF Lensing technology”.

This is quite an interesting move by Motorola which usually avoids adding wireless charging capabilities to its phones but now it is making a major development by investing in a charging technology that is truly wireless and doesn’t require phones to be placed on a charging pad for it to work.

This new concept for charging technology is named “Motorola One Hyper.” The demonstration shows two handsets start charging without any contact with the charger over the air when they are placed at 80cm and 100cm away respectively.

Motorola’s devices will be using GuRu’s RF Lensing to charge the device from across the room. It uses a miniature power transfer system to transmit power in a long range and with precision. As of now, nothing much is known about this partnership.

It remains to be seen when the fruit of this partnership will be available to the users but it’s likely that we will have to wait a bit longer as the technology seems to be at least a few months away for commercial use.

This year, Xiaomi also unveiled its Mi Air Charge which is a similar technology to what Motorola is trying to build. The concept from Xiaomi for an over-the-air charging system uses space positioning and energy transmissions to remotely charge a device.

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South Korea may have just got an answer to the Huawei‘s Truly Wireless laser Charging tech. A professor in South Korea has developed an infrared-wireless charging technology that will work for devices with several meters apart.

As reported by Korean media(via Sina Technology) Professor Ha Jin-Yong of Sejong University said that he has developed a wireless charging technology and registered a patent locally. Apparently, it is infrared-based and can reach devices at several meters. Additionally, users can select different bandwidths of the infrared spectrum to charge multiple devices simultaneously.

The present wireless charging is merely a wireless charging tech. Precisely, it is based on the electromagnetic induction principle where the devices need to be attached with each other. It has limitations like low conversion rates, inability to use your phone while it is charging(since you need to keep it on the base), heating issues, expensive, and more. Also, you need wires to connect the power source and the charging base.

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However, Huawei’s recently filed a patent which allows your devices to charge 100% wirelessly via laser tech. That is, it uses a laser charging module to beam safe, invisible lasers that your devices can capture. Similarly, the latest infrared charging tech is truly wireless.

It uses a high-power infrared light generated by optical amplifiers. Henceforth, as mentioned above, the bands can be varied to charge multiple devices wherein each device can pick a band to receive the power. This not only overcomes the loss while sharing the energy across devices, but it also ensures that it reaches your device across several meters.

That said, Ha Jin-Yong says this patent opens a world where the country’s domestic tech can respond to Huawei’s laser-based wireless charging technology in China. Apparently, the university has been receiving multiple proposals for commercialization from companies around the world.

Nevertheless, the future looks bright for charging technology but we really hope that companies find a way to bring them to the masses as not all can afford wireless charging smartphones at present.

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