Tired of stringing up with sockets and switches just to charge your phone, redemption is here! Furniture giant Ikea has just unveiled a range of furniture fitted with wireless charging spots for mobile devices. Calling it the Home Smart range, the Swedish company has fixed wireless charging pots into a new range of products which includes lamps, bedside and coffee tables, as well as charging pads for any surface.
“The wireless charging standards are evolving,” Ian Fogg, an IHS analyst, told the BBC. “The industry has no incentive to allow devices to go hot because it means the charging isn’t as efficient as it might be. “If a device gets hot, power is being lost through heat rather than being efficiently added to the battery.”
Africa will have to wait
Sadly the Ikea furnitures are not coming to Africa yet, it will only go on sale in the UK and North America in April 2015, the firm said. With the product still testing the market, it will only be a little while before the swedish company brings some down here; after all, no one can neglect Africa for so long.