It had been attempting to develop technology for wireless charging of portable devices such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants, mp3 players and cameras.
A Splashpower system was featured on Tomorrow's World (a popular science/IT programme from the BBC) some years ago, where it was given praise and demonstrated a London cafe setting where be-suited executive types were able to charge their phones and PDAs whilst having a power lunch.
As of October 2006[update] the company had yet to make an announcement as to when products would be commercially available or at what price.
As of October 2006[update] the company had not publicly disclosed key parameters of its technology—such as the power transfer efficiency, the practical limits on power levels, and how tolerant the technology is to the presence of metallic objects in the magnetic field—which made it difficult to evaluate the product.
[1] In May 2008 Splashpower was acquired by Fulton Innovation, the developers of eCoupled wireless power technology.