Would you still want the power to fly, if you were required to put on a 117-piece set of chain mail before each flight? Would you still value instant teleportation, if you had to fill out a 72-page form before each jaunt? Would you still want ultimate control over the universe, if you had to power it by pedaling an exercise bike for 14 hours a day? In other words, how much inconvenience would you tolerate in exchange for a little bit of magic? Thanks to a new product called the WildCharge mat, that question is no longer hypothetical. The concept is irresistible: For $60, you get a thin pad that’s about the size of a typical mouse pad (8 by 6 inches, or 20 by 15 centimeters). Its surface is covered by 12 shiny chrome stripes. Each day when you come home, you just set down your cellphone, iPod and BlackBerry directly on this little mat. They connect to it solidly with a subtle magnetic click — and you marvel as they begin charging automatically. In other words, this single, sleek pad replaces the hideous mass of heavy, ugly, black power bricks that are currently required to recharge your mobile gadgets. (There’s a special circle of hell reserved for every electronics-company designer who has ever shipped his product with yet another proprietary, mutually incompatible AC adapter brick.) And since it can charge five doodads at once, the mat also reclaims four power outlets on your wall, freeing them up for more important jobs; the mat’s own power cord uses only a single wall socket. If you’re a business traveler, you’ll find that the whole apparatus is simpler and lighter to carry than a mess of black wall warts. The first time you plop your BlackBerry or RAZR onto the WildCharge and see it light…

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A One-Stop Mobile-Device Recharger

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