14.03.2013 12:20 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Apple proposes iPad wireless charging with a difference: power comes from the Smart Cover

Remember when Apple's Phil Schiller mentioned he wasn't into wireless charging? Well, what he specifically said was that he didn't dig "having to create another [charging] device you have to plug into the wall." In other words, Apple is probably looking for a simpler way to make the idea work -- and that's exactly what we're looking at in the patent drawings above, which are currently being weighed up by the USPTO after having been submitted back in 2011. They show a protective cover tricked out with an "inductive power transmitter

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