The wireless charging mat is a device designed to charge your portable devices such as cellphones, ipods, and portable video games, wirelessly by placing your device on the "power mat". This product looks cool and that is about it. I looked further into this and actually interacted with one at a Best Buy. The design of the mat looks like a small skateboard which has a coolness factor built in but the mat has to be plugged into a wall, obviously to send power to the mat. The portable devices that rest on the mat have two options to receive juice. One, use the provided power cube which has a cord with a plug on the end that comes with exchangeable adapters to fit your device. Then you set your device on the mat and the power cube which is wired to your device sends the juice. So pretty much you have to take more steps to charge your device "wirelessly". The other option is to buy a case that has the cube built in. 2 problems with this. This case makes your device twice the size with a hard rectangle on the back, and the those cases cost upwards to 40 dollars. With the pad costing 100 dollars to start this seems impractical. This design sounds great in theory, "charge your device wirelessly", but in all actuality it is terrible. You might as well buy a power strip from Wal Mart for 5 bucks and plug all your device's charger cords into that.
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