A firm that provides the technology of charging electrical and electronic products wirelessly has predicted that mobile phones and laptops would do away with power cords within a year.

WiTricity CEO Eric Giler said wireless transfer of electricity will soon be commercially available as the company is close to fine-tuning its capability to convert electricity into a magnetic field that could then be sent through the air on a certain frequency. The magnetic field is transferred to witricity-enabled gadgets through WiTricity's technology called magnetically coupled resonance.

Giler went on to say that wireless electricity would be a normal thing in five years.

Aside from phones and laptops, witricity or wireless electricity will make electric cars more attractive to consumers as drivers only need to charge it through a wireless power mat instead of plugging it to a power source using a cord.

The Wireless Power Consortium, which is standardizing the technology, said wireless electricity will benefit the environment by ending the yearly production of 40 billion disposable batteries, which end up as waste.