A few months back I wrote a post about wireless electricity, naming it the thing I probably most excited for in the near-term future. Well, it appears that future has gotten a little closer now as a successful test was conducted that used wireless electricity, or WiTricity as they’re calling it, to light up a 60W light-bulb from 7 feet away.

There is no doubt work still to be done to extend the range and make it practical, but you can be sure now that powering and charging devices wirelessly will be commonplace in the not-too-distant future. Nikola Tesla would be very proud.

In other wireless power news, the Pentagon supposedly wants to use a series of satellites in space to collect solar rays and beam them down to Earth for power. Why, you may ask, is the Pentagon working on this? Well it seems they, like the rest of us, don’t want to pay for gas anymore – to fill up their tanks and choppers…

Wireless power is seemingly all the rage right now and I couldn’t be happier. When I can go anywhere – like the beach – and use my laptop without worrying about it dying on me, that’ll be a great day. The wire – in all its forms – just got placed on the endangered list.