We know it’s Apple iPhone 3G S Day and all, but we’re trying to bring some balance here and give you some more diverse news from around the world.

Nokia is making some moves right now to develop an over the air charging system. The project that the Nokia Research Centre is working on would be a method of charging your phone without using any type of wall charger.

Wall chargers are a huge cause of waste and often the are very inefficient in their use of energy. Many companies are taking steps to combat these problems and in Europe many manufacturers have agree to creating standardized chargers so as to avoid a new charger with every new cellphone (maybe they could try making a phone which is relevant for more than 6 months at a time). Nokia however is taking it one step further by developing technology to completely eliminate the charger.

The technology would harvest ambient radio waves that are floating around us 24 hours a day. Radio waves from antennas, Wi-Fi connections and other types of transmitters can be harvested to store power into your phone. The technology isn’t anything new as many radio frequency identification (RFID) is used by many different industries for multiple uses.

Nokia’s current prototypes currently have the ability to harvest 5 milliwatts which doesn’t meant the estimated requirement of 20 milliwatts to keep a device running in stand-by mode. The goal is to be able to harvest 50 milliwatts for one device which apparently should be able to sustain a full charge to allow the phone to operate. What type of operations it will be capable of is yet to be known and Nokia is estimating that the project won’t resolve for another 3-5 years.

We’re all for it though. We love the idea of ditching wall chargers and getting truly wireless. What do you think? Do you care about these kind of initiatives? Or is it not broken, so we shouldn’t fix it?

[Via CNet]