Mobitrends

The Power management space is definitely getting super-hot lately. Another day another announce with PowerZoa introducingtheir line of “cubes” which are:

Powerzoa cube is a smart plug that fits between your appliances and wall outlets. The cubes measure your energy usage and sends data to a personalized website where you can schedule appliances to turn on and off automatically, saving electricity, lowering energy costs and helping the environment.

While the website is hideous, it’s quite remarkable they had bot a power meter and a BPL chip fit into such a tiny package. We’re finally getting to what we were foreseeing with WaveStorm in 2007.

After Wildcharge, Psyclone TouchCharge kit is next in line to provide wireless power to mass market consumer applications. While I don’t know precisely which vendor is providing with the actual wireless power technology (both companies are “just” device manufacturers), this reminds me of the awesome powercast demo I had during last year’s CES. Would be curious to know which vendor has now taken the lead over that field.

Update: actually I just met Wildcharge’s CEO and it appears that Psyclone is their first OEM deal – I guess it’s not just for nothing that the technology was so similar …