No #$%$#$% Wires

Wireless charging is still in its infancy, but the idea is great: you have a mat or platform onto which you can toss your gadgets and let them charge. No tangled wires and fumbling around. There's a catch, of course, in that most of these chargers will require a special case or add-on to be hugging your device. And cost... they are pricey, not only for the mat, but for the adapter too. This makes something like the Powermat one pricey charging station if you want to charge each of your gadgets, but I like their advertising.

Currently, the mat will run about US$100, with about $40 per adapter. Pricey, indeed, but as the technology becomes integrated into the product, as inductive charging becomes more ubiquitous, that cost will decline.