Forget cords. Apple might be planning to charge your future iPhone using Wi-Fi.

In the future, charging your iPhone could be as seamless as getting in range of a Wi-Fi signal.

Apple was recently granted a patent for a system equipped to harness the wireless signals emitted by routers to charge electronic devices. The system described in the filing, which was uncovered by , would depend on the same frequencies we now use to transfer data over the air to give our phones a constant source of power. 

You could walk into a room with one of the routers and automatically connect to the power source, finally freeing up our phones from wires, external packs, and charging platforms to make battery woes a thing of the past. Read more...