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11 Aug 2016

OvR floating wireless charger



Soon to be found in a Brookstone near you, the OvRcharge is a wireless charger than can levitate your smartphone using magnets. Of course as a third-party product it's not true wireless charging — it requires a special case to charge your device — but it can levitate and rotate "most phones" using a magnet that you'll need to attach to the back of your phone

The basic principles behind OvRcharge are fairly simple, and the product consists of two main components, namely the charging base, and the charging case. The charging base is where all the science happens, and consists of a polished block of wood that contains all the necessary components to keep smartphones floating in the air through magnetic levitation, while sending electrical current to their batteries – or rather the charging case – using wireless inductive charging; a technology that relies on electromagnetic fields to transfer energy between a sender and receiver coil. The charging case includes an electrical receiver and sticks to a magnet whose role is to keep up to 600 grams worth of smart technology floating in the air.

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