The Future of Wireless Charging

April 20, 2020

I was shown around by the company’s co-founders, CEO Jake Slatnick and CTO Eric Goodchild. They explained the problem they had set out to solve. Although plugging in a device like a mobile phone provides for a faster charge, wireless charging is more convenient. Essentially, you just set your device on top of a charging surface, and a coil inside that charging surface charges the battery in the device.

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About FreePower

In 2017, FreePower (FKA Aira) took the first steps toward reinventing a technology that had always fallen short of expectations: wireless charging. Today, we have more than 250 patent assets for our advanced system, all of which were engineered in-house. After years of perfecting the technology, we launched the second-generation FreePower with Tesla in 2023, followed by our latest innovation: FreePower for Countertop. The technology won a multitude of awards in 2024 including 3 CES Innovation Awards, IIDA Product Design Award, KBB’s Kitchen Product of the Year, the coveted KBIS Best-in-Show Award, and Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech. We are now partnering with leading architects, designers, builders, and fabricators to bring power to the spaces that connect us, with FreePower now available in more than 450 showrooms and fabrication shops across the United States. Learn more at https://www.freepower.io.