Lenovo made a wi-fi charger in your laptop computer

Lenovo has introduced a brand new product referred to as the Go Wireless Charging Kit, which helps you to retrofit wi-fi charging performance to all kinds of laptops. It makes use of “Power by Contact” know-how from Energy Square, relatively than the extra frequent Qi customary.

The equipment consists of a 3.2mm-thick brushed metallic charging mat that you simply plug into the wall and depart at your desk, in addition to an extended wi-fi charging receiver that attaches to the bottom of your laptop computer and connects over USB-C. Once arrange, Lenovo says it ought to cost most 13-inch to 14-inch “non-touch notebooks of up to 65W” with effectivity of 93 %, and it’ll work with each Windows and macOS units.

Wireless charging on laptops is fairly uncommon. Dell launched what it referred to as the world’s first wirelessly charging 2-in-1, the Latitude 7285, in 2017, though it was extra of a pill that could possibly be charged by a keyboard base. Intel additionally made efforts to combine the Rezence magnetic resonance charging customary into its laptop computer specs, however nothing was ever launched commercially.

Lenovo will launch the Go Wireless Charging Kit in October for $139.99. It’s a part of a brand new vary of Go-branded cellular equipment together with a Qi-equipped energy financial institution, wi-fi mice, headphones, and keyboards.