Several naysayers to earth-friendly tech will point out that it's tree-hugging talk to try to get customers buying more expensive products. Yet when the total of people to be born in future generations and the concomitant rise in the number of users of electrical power and standard fuels is taken into consideration, it clearly becomes an act of responsibility for current technology to attempt to produce earth-friendly possibilities today that can become earth-friendly preferences tomorrow.

One example of such a technological effort is one of the first environmentally friendly options to charge mobile or portable tools: Panasonic's innovative solar-powered wireless recharging table. Due to be introduced at the end of 2011 or early 2012, the table will make use of solar energy gained by the solar panels on its face. This is the future of a renewable photovoltaic technology that is Qi enabled.

Qi has been designed by the wireless power trust as a standard specification to be used by companies that produce recharging accessories like this brand-new table, as well as the gizmos they will charge - like a brand-new smart phone that is touch-screen equipped, scans text books, and has a foldout full-sized key board. Qi engineering is a very recent development, but rapid integration and a score of device releases are planned.

Employing Qi with older wi-fi gadgets is assured, and we will undoubtedly see and hear more information on Panasonic's completely new solar-powered wireless charging table and lots of other Qi-empowered battery chargers in the future.