Finally, someone is trying to do something technology-related that doesn’t require any wires. Sure, today’s technological necessities such as cell phones and laptops are designed to be small and light so that users can bring them around anywhere—but the chargers that you have to plug into sockets on the wall to keep them going aren’t exactly handy.

Nokia, the company extremely popular for their cutting edge cell phones, has decided to take matters in their own hands. At present, they are working on inventing a cell phone that gathers radio waves from the air, and produces utilizable power using those radio waves. Yes—waves.

Most of today’s wireless power systems are designed around the idea of using the transmitter and the receiver; Nokia is on a completely different track in this project. In this case, Nokia opts to exploit the fact that there are wasted wireless waves bouncing around in the air—wireless waves from the radio, TV, and other mobile phone systems. At present, the environment is simply absorbing these waves, and they suddenly become of no use. Nokia wants to change this, and make use of what other people consider wasted energy. Nokia’s wireless cell phone collects the different energies in the air in order to generate an electrical current that can be used to recharge a cell phone’s battery.

Of course, we all know that gathering energy from the air will never be able to provide electricity for an entire house, but Nokia is hoping that they can at least gather enough to power their cell phones for as long as you need it.
We don’t know exactly how much power this cell phone will be able to produce, but it should at least be enough to prevent a cell phone from running out of battery. Although Nokia is still taking baby steps at this point, the idea seems extremely promising. Hopefully, we’ll see this wireless baby around in three to five years.