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Dupont brings wireless charging to its Corian countertops

2015-06-15
hey guys this is Brian Bennett and we are at a neocon 2015 in Chicago we're taking a first look at the brand new DuPont Corian charging surface if you're familiar with the Quarian synthetic platform of surfaces for the home you will definitely know that it's been offered in lots of places lots of colors lots of styles so what's different with corian now is that it will have wireless charging technology built right into it basically you'll have the power Matt's charging standard as well as support for the Qi wireless power charging standard built in you'll have hardware and induction charging stations built into the countertop and you'll be able to say set up your kitchen or your bathroom or even furniture with charging platforms and stations built right into the surface so if you have a nexus 6 or a samsung galaxy s6 that has both power mat and qi wireless charging support built into the phone you'll be able to just drop it on the surface and pick up some electrons right into your battery without having to mess with any wires or anything like that if you have an iPhone se that doesn't have any sort of wireless charging support built in you can get one of these rings here it's a power ring from power mat which enables you to plug in to your phone via the lightning cable and just plop it on to one of these little rings here on the countertop and you're gonna really start enjoying flow of charge from the station directly into your battery so you want to get your hands on the dupont Corian charging surface well that depends on who you are and and what you plan to do with it if you are an end-user and you want to say put this in your own home you can go to Home Depot or a licensed Corian fabricator and basically get that custom ordered and built to match your specifications it'll cost about you know a couple hundred dollars per charging area on the countertop so you can expect that kind of pricing it's available right now as well for more check out cnet.com I'm Brian Bennett for CNET appliances
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