Wireless charging technology available now for small devices such as phones will be available next year for laptops and tablets, Computer World reports, based on a report on IDG News.

"This is a big, big deal. In the next several years you will see hundreds of thousands of charge stations. Intel's desire is that wireless charging evolve from wearable to the phone to the tablet to the PC," Kirk Skaugen, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's PC Client Group, told CW.

This means that buying extended laptop batteries or carrying extras will be an outdated practice, Skaugen said in a webcast keynote Friday at the IFA trade show in Berlin.

Currently there is interest and support from Dell, Lenovo, Asus and Panasonic, but more are expected to get on board in the future.

Intel is working on a charging station that can charge general laptops, but will not be enough for larger screen or gaming laptops, CW reported. It is based on technology from Alliance for Wireless Power, A4WP, which has more than 100 members including names like Qualcomm and Samsung.

And this is all part of a larger push for several wire-free capabilities to enter the market within the next two to three years.

Meanwhile, in Spain, a technology has been created to power in-between consumer electronics such as keyboards, mice and speakers, or equipment such as robots or guided vehicles, and bioelectric devices like cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators, reported BGR.

The device was invented at Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) in Spain.

"This phenomena is produced when a resonant object is moved closer to a second resonant element and both resonance frequencies are equal or quite similar. This physical proximity produces an energy coupling from the first device, that acts as the source, to the second one, that acts as the charge," said Jose Sanchez-Dehesa, researcher at the Wave Phenomena Group of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, BGR reported.

These technologies are going to help prevent PCs from becoming outdated, as they continue to compete with tablets and smartphones, PC World reported.

"If they (Intel) don't make investment like this, an old-school laptop starts looking really old. The goal of all this stuff is to make things seamless and transparent," Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research, told PC World.