MobileWise Introduces Simple Portable Device Recharger
A Silicon Valley startup is promising investors and customers an
easy way to recharge portable devices, but is being extremely cagey on
details of the new technology.
MobileWise Inc., based in Mountain View, Calif., says it will offer
a "surface" to recharge the batteries of mobile devices. The
company will ship the technology before the end of the year, according
to Andy Goren, the chief executive of the company.
"The MobileWise technology is a revolutionary surface that
allows safe charging of any MobileWise compatible device placed a top
(sic) the surface," according to a supplementary document the
company is publishing to attract investors.
The company touts its technology as "safe, wire-free power for
mobile devices", transferring electric power without the benefit
of wires. The technology is not a cradle, according to Goren.
According to the company, more than 2 million laptop owners are not
truly mobile--even if they have wireless networking installed in their
laptops, they often have to plug them into a wall outlet to power the
technology.
The most concrete indication of the company's viability is its
management team, which includes Bill Maggs, MobileWise's chairman and
former chief technology officer at Palm Computing Inc. Goren served as
former chief executive at GeePS Inc., and Tal Dayan, the company's
president and chief technical officer, founded M-Systems Inc., known
for its Disk-On-Chip and Disk-On-Key products.
"We want to keep (the technology) a little vague, while we
show it to investors and OEMs," Goren said.
MobileWise's team includes two lawyers: Elliott Stein, who serves
as general counsel; and Dan Kikinis, the company's intellectual
property adviser. The company has filed "several" patents,
and applied for several more, according to Goren
