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Once again, a technological giant has tapped into a new frontier of technology. While we have evolved from the ooh’s and ahh’s of portable computers and digital music players, Nokia has once again upped the ante with what it hopes to be the future of cellphones – that which is free of power charging.

Powered by the innovation of collecting invisible, ambient radio waves everywhere – around, behind, beside, and above you – and turning them into usable power for your cellphone, Nokia relieves its users from charging their cellphones’ batteries after a certain period of time. Sooner than we might expect, we may no longer have to worry about forgetting our chargers at home when we go on vacations and out-of-town business meetings.

This young innovation, however, has its own drawback so far. The electromagnetic energy available in the environment will not provide your cellphone enough power to prevent it from going dead on a long phone call. But so far, what it can help you with is keeping your phone alive if it’s on standby mode for most of the time.

As with any other technological innovation, we have to start somewhere, don’t we? And Nokia has each and everyone of us up and running.

In three to five years, Nokia will have this phone available to mass consumers. When that time comes, what device or gadget would you then want to take advantage of this kind of technology?