Researchers charge phone from across the room using freakin' laser beams

Let's face it, charging our smartphones hasn't evolved much over the years. You plug your phone in, or place it on a precise place on a wireless charging pad, and then you wait. But the genius researchers over at the University of Washington have developed a way to charge your phone from across the room using freakin' laser beams! Researchers put a power cell on the back of a smartphone, which can charge up the phone using the energy from the laser, and it can do it just as quickly as a direct...

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