Mar 18,2014 Wireless electricity? It’s here

(CNN) — Katie Hall was shocked the second she saw it: a light-bulb glowing in the middle of a room with no wires attached.

Looking back, it was a crude experiment, she remembers: a tiny room filled with gigantic copper refrigerator coils — the kind you’d see if you cracked open the back of your freezer.

She walked in and out between the coils and the bulb — and still the bulb glowed.

“I said: ‘Let’s work on this. This is the future.'” 

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/14/tech/innovation/wireless-electricity/index.html