CES- Izhar Matzkevich, Wildcharge
Izhar Matzkevich from Wildcharge talks to Benjamin about a product that charges any enabled electronic device just by placing it on a pad. This application is great for the traveler so they do not have to bring every charger for every device.
Full Transcript:
Izhar: My name is Izhar and we are at Wild Charge. What you see behind me here
is the Wild Charge display of Wire Free Power.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Define Wire Free Power, that doesn’t make a whole lot of
sense to me?
Izhar: Well power stands for electric power. Wire free stands for charging and
powering devices without wires. Why don’t we look at what we have here at our
display, with your permission? What you see is a very flat thin light weight
pad, which we called Wild Charger. This is a charging pad, once you place a
device that enabled with our technology on the pad, you will receive power from
the pad and its full power that’s no trickle charge. You can do multiple
devices, you can charge your laptop next to your cell phone, next to an iPod and
what you see there, you can warm a coffee while doing that and all in same time.
Enable the device, place it on a pad, that’s all you need. So next time when you
travel, you don’t have to carry all the charges and adaptors, the messy
tangled web of cords that you do. Just take the Wild Charger pad with you,
devices are enabled, put them on the pad and they get power.
Benjamin Higginbotham: So, I just need the power of the power-pad itself,
somewhere on my desk or my table or wherever I want to put it.
Izhar: Absolutely.
Benjamin Higginbotham: That plugs into the wall and then I gain...
Izhar: Or any power source.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Or power source and then I get the adaptor that goes in
the back of my device.
Izhar: Yeah.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Once that’s done I just place the device on the pad and
it beins either charging the device or powering the device, in whatever method.
Izhar: In the future, the adaptor will be built-in into the device.
Benjamin Higginbotham: What if I wanna bigger pad? What if I wanna go all the
across my desk?
Izhar: We can enable much bigger than what you see, we can have the whole
conference room table with a pad like that.
Benjamin Higginbotham: So, if I want to, actually, I could have board meeting, I
just enable all my employees to have this device hooked into their laptop, and
rather having everyone bring their power supplies with them and find a jack and
deal with all that.
Izhar: Exactly right.
Benjamin Higginbotham: A whole table is covered you set your laptop with down
boom you're powered.
Izhar: Exactly right, Benjamin. That’s a next step as what we call hot desking.
You place the device on the desk, you have the power facility, you get the
wireless connectivity, you are ready to work.
Benjamin Higginbotham: So, its sounds like you are trying to get this built into
the devices themselves, such as an iPod or a cell phone, PSP, laptop whatever it
may be.
Izhar: Exactly right.
Benjamin Higginbotham: What about building the pad directly into desks?
Izhar: That’s definitely an option Desks, car dashboards, Airplane seat trays .
Benjamin Higginbotham: So I could use this --- that’s another good option .
Izhar: Any flat surface for that matter.
Benjamin Higginbotham: I could take this, I could stick this one of these in my
car, kind of set my cell phone like the center dashboard in my car, just set my
cell phone down on it and then, now they are having to bring a car adaptor, I
could have one of these at home, one of these in my car, one of these in my
suitcase, I use the same adaptor for everything and just set it down on this pad
and off I go?
Izhar: Exactly right and its very simple just drop the phone or whatever device
you have on a pad, you will get the power?
Benjamin Higginbotham: What if I place my hand on the pad. What if I place a
metal object on the pad? What happens?
Izhar: The pad is safe, safe to touch, safe to spill liquids.
Benjamin Higginbotham: So, it’s a liquid resistant as well, so if I drop water
on it, it not gonna destroy it. You just wipe right off?
Izhar: Just wipe the water off and it works and also clean it up by doing this.
Benjamin Higginbotham: When will it be available and for how much?
Izhar: Well we are targeting availability, 3 to 6 months.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Estimated MSRP for that?
Izhar: Well we estimate the smaller pad which will deliver 15 Watts of power,
which is enough to charge 3 or 4 or 5 small phones, small devices such as cell
phones, will go for $40 or $50, the bigger pad which can charge a laptop and
some other devices about a $100. An each individual adaptor, they will go for
$10 to $20.
Benjamin Higginbotham: How many different adaptors you are gonna start with?
Izhar: Great question Benjamin, we going to start initially with adaptors to the
more visible, well known type of devices, so Blackberry’s, Razr cell phones and
so on.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Alright, so iPod…
Izhar: Blackberry, Razrs all those…
Benjamin Higginbotham: The popular cell phones, the popular portable devices.
Izhar: Popular devices and then others will also.
Benjamin Higginbotham: And what about laptop, so you will be developing anything
for laptop’s to be able to?
Izhar: Yes we will.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Awesome.
Izhar: In fact this pad, right there is the bigger pad, it can power a laptop.
We have here a laptop that’s enabled with our technology, it’s not on the
display right now, but we have it.
Benjamin Higginbotham: You know I got to say this is one of the coolest things I
have seen at show.
Izhar: Wonderful, could you repeat it?
Benjamin Higginbotham: Yeah, this one of the coolest things I’ve seen at the
show.
Izhar: Wonderful, I appreciate it .
Benjamin Higginbotham: Thank you so much for your time.
Izhar: Thank you, it’s a pleasure.
1. Posted by: Memphis Z on January 13, 2007 11:16 AM:
This kicks ass, I want one.