A Santa Clara company beaming up to 100 watts through the air — no cord, no pad, no aiming. Just a zone where devices work when you set them down.
Here is a thing that is true about almost every wireless charger you have ever owned: it is not really wireless. There is a pad, the pad has a cord, and the cord goes into a wall. You put your phone on the pad, and if you put it down a centimeter off-center, it does not charge, and you find this out three hours later when your alarm does not go off. The wire did not go away. It just moved one object over and started judging you about alignment.
Etherdyne Technologies, a company in Santa Clara, would like to skip that whole arrangement. Its pitch is that power should behave less like a parking space and more like a room you walk into. You define a three-dimensional volume - the company calls it a Power Zone, or a Wire-Free Power Zone, and yes there are trademark symbols - and any compatible device inside that volume draws what it needs. Up to 100 total watts. A laptop pulling 50, a phone charging, a mouse and keyboard sipping along, all at once, and the devices can move around while they do it.
The mechanism is magnetic resonance at a low frequency, 6.78 megahertz, which is a detail that matters mostly because it is the boring part that makes the exciting part legal and safe. Etherdyne has FCC and CE certifications, which is the regulatory way of saying: we checked, it does not cook you. It also holds more than forty granted patents, which is the corporate way of saying: we would prefer you not copy this.
The people behind it are two physicists, Dr. Robert Moffatt and Dr. Jeff Yen, who met while getting PhDs in physics at Stanford and then spent roughly eight years turning a lab curiosity into something a device maker could actually license. Eight years is a long time to work on one idea. It is also, in hardware, approximately the correct amount of time, and one of the more honest things about the company is that it does not pretend otherwise.
Yen likes to invoke Nikola Tesla, who lit lamps without wires in the 1890s and then spent the rest of his life being right too early. “We've reached an inflection point,” Yen has said. “What Nikola Tesla once imagined is no longer just a lab demo.” This is the sort of line that could be marketing, and partly is, but the underlying claim - that the gap between the demo and the product has finally closed - is the entire thesis of the business.
A transmitter fills a desk-, counter- or room-sized volume with a low-frequency magnetic-resonance field at 6.78 MHz.
Tiny receivers inside devices resonate with the field and pull only the power they need - no pad, no precise placement.
Devices keep working as they move around the zone. Up to 100 total watts is shared across everything inside it.
Laptops, phones and peripherals charging in one field. Etherdyne demoed exactly this at CES 2026, and creators have already built “smart desk” setups with the eval kit.
Merchandising fixtures that never need a cord. Partner Pacific Northern integrated the tech to gain placement flexibility and remove cord hazards on the store floor.
Battery-free implants and devices powered within a zone - a recurring target market for through-the-air power, and one where removing batteries changes the design entirely.
Sensors for structural health monitoring, building management and industrial equipment that stay powered without wiring or battery swaps.
The most interesting decision Etherdyne has made is not technical. It is that the company mostly does not want to sell you a finished product. It wants to license its Ether Power platform - the transmitters, the receivers, the patents - to the people who make consumer electronics, medical devices, retail fixtures and building sensors, and let them do the last mile.
The founders frame this as “Electrification 2.0,” and their stated ambition is that wireless power becomes a shared standard the way Wi-Fi did. Wi-Fi, worth remembering, did not win because it was the fastest way to move data. It won because everyone agreed to build to it. That is the bet here: own the platform, and the roomful of devices takes care of itself.
Then, in March 2026, Etherdyne did something a little unusual for a deep-tech hardware company - it raised money from the crowd. Its Regulation Crowdfunding campaign on StartEngine oversubscribed and closed early, pulling in over $1.2 million from more than 400 investors. When your would-be customers become your cap table, you have validated demand in a way a term sheet cannot.
Regulation Crowdfunding round on StartEngine oversubscribes, raising over $1.2M from 400+ investors and closing a week early.
Unveils position-free, multi-device wireless power at CES 2026 with a fully cord-free desk in the Smart Home section (Powercast booth #51716).
Announces CES plans to demonstrate multiple devices powered at once inside a single Wire-Free Power Zone.
Founded by Dr. Robert Moffatt and Dr. Jeff Yen; roughly eight years of R&D refining the magnetic-resonance platform before commercialization.
Etherdyne's campaign film on the StartEngine crowdfunding round and the vision behind Ether Power.
A closer look at what the technology does and why the raise drew hundreds of backers.