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everybody michael fisher here from pocketnow.com here at Las Vegas still at CES 2013 this is the fun part we're here at chief to just learn how to bounce not we as we've been mispronouncing it over and over again but I'm here with Steve from Qi who's gonna answer a few questions for us on the current state of the Qi wireless charging and maybe a little bit about the future we've currently got on the market yes so this area here really is a highlight of the different phones and transmitter pads that we have that are released and available today on the market so you can see that many different phones that are released such as the HTC s the Nokia Lumia this is a Bluetooth headset from Nokia here is a here are some back covers for the Samsung Galaxy s3 there are several products that are available in Japan and you can see some of the different charging pod Caesar from Nokia frequency different types of designs this is what he speak well on that one before I've never used the Fat Boy a speaker this is the basic view this has this insight just has the standard what other circulate inside the pillow okay this is the stand which does the same exact box so much I go ahead yet so there are some other different types of stands here so you can see from down here and this one here is that's just not at all your department you know what we don't worry about the communicators and this is just the core of it is just inducted like p.m. induction right I can't unfold we have instead of the coils being it's linked they are separate the idea is there's 130 companies whenever you build a payphone it works on any or a transmitter it works with any receiver and any receiver works with any transmitter there are now I think in Japan they are rolling out ten thousand different tracking statements in retail establishments like coffee shop right so the idea is when you want you have a phone you move you go to a public area you want it to work in a bargain and with it like is this so this is a portable return yeah so you charge your battery and then you plug this in later and charge your iPhone so it's a little power pack basically the charge is about you pocketed where you're traveling around you plug it in via microUSB there that's very nice longer range is a good question I think why might I think the first challenge with longer range is working with furniture because today the standard is designed to be work with a few millimeters and here five millimeters of Z cap and which is fine for just placing your phone on the pad but if you want to upgrade furniture you means you have to drill a hole information so I think you proved distance the first focus is going to be to allow you to bolt a transmitter to the bottom of a table and then you can charge your phone top of the table so over here we have this is a new version and this is called qi+ so this is a or adaptive residence this is a new version of wireless charging so you can put two receivers on the pad and you can also get efficiency there in any sense the efficiency gets worse we see it drops with increased distance even on the ones designed specifically for it so that's yeah right is this another vehicle charger here yeah this is so there is no the big you know the big thing interesting market for the ecosystem is car charging so you obviously have bluetooth in the car my ability to charge off the charger phone is very important this is a prototype system from negative class okay major accommodate pretty much just announce the wireless charging in their new vehicle so that's what this thing over here is over here thank you so this is like the culture so this is a very exciting that they're adopting of first consumer production available super long range of process room would you say so I think it ultimately is cutting the cord on your person adding products you're cutting the cord getting rid of the power of I think it's a primary goal it's less about distance is more around convenience I think you know today the focus is very much on cell phones and things but if you think about other application like industrial medical systems then you know there's lots of battery-powered applications and medical they don't want to have contacts because they want to have the hermetically seal things industrial want to get rid of contacts because of dust and things so there are some practically attractive elements of getting rid of contacts of connectors of wireless charger you can just just charge directly through a barrier that'll keep of that seal in place for at least you have medical they have totally sealed things that you just put it to ball to clean and tape out again we used without a recharge without having to worry about important things like that yeah so it's really about mostly about convenience but I think there are some some applications that drive a practical ability and finally just my last question would be and you know there are some other standards out there like I know the Energizer of the Duracell or whatever those you remember the brand name I'm talking about you know I mean there are other standards out there that are also making aggressive pushes into things like Starbucks and the things like retail establishments and that is still incompatible the tea is a totally different standard so is there there must be some element of competitiveness with the standards butchers I mean is it something where you feel like she is in a good place relative so I think we think she is in a very good place obviously it is a new technology and there are some competing standards so she today is the only one that's out there which have products with integrated wireless charging built-in I think it's very possible to do a back cover which is where they're competitive competing technologies are today but ultimately the trick is to have the electronics have built into the products so you don't have to buy your own separate skin for the technology to work and I think that's where the WPC is that is ahead frankly with with a large number of members and also the large number of products are now have been too great a wireless charger Steve thank you very much thank you very much once again from CES 2013 in Las Vegas thanks - gee thanks to Steve who's to everyone keep watching for a whole lot more coverage as CES rolls on