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how would you like to charge your smartphone your wireless speaker or any other wireless device without using a charger at all I'm Jessica Dahl Court from CNN and I'm going to give you a quick demo of a new kind of technology that we're not going to see for a couple of years but it's really cool so I have to show you anyway this comes from a startup called why charge is very simple we've got a transmitter in the ceiling it could eventually be tucked into a light bulb or you know any other fixture and then on this smartphone here we've got a receiver in the device right now this is just a demo so it's in the case basically infrared light beams from the transmitter to the receiver on this device and it will charge it so imagine that you are in an airport or your own home or in a coffee shop all it means is that you can take whatever the device is say a phone and drop it anywhere within that range and it will automatically start charging so that means you never have to worry about your battery life wherever the system is in place now the devices will charge as long as it's within line of sight from the transmitter as soon as you cover that up it stops now the range is going to be between 15 and 30 feet the distance from the transmitter to the receiver but it will cover an entire room and you can charge multiple products at the same time there are a lot more details so make sure that you check cnet.com for more now I know you're dying to know when you're going to start seeing this in your own devices well the first generation will come to the smart home in 2016 and then for other devices like smart phones after that in 2017 but at first you're going to start seeing the receiver embedded in aftermarket cases and dongles things like that and then later on some of the makers will also start embedding it into their own devices so you don't even have to worry about that that's it for this demo of why charge you can find out much more about the technology at cnet.com you