INTEL SHOWED OFF its wireless charging bowl at an event in London today, a clever piece of kit for charging mobile devices without the need for cables. Demoed to us at the Intel Future Showcase, the smart bowl, which was originally unveiled at CES in Las Vegas in January, aims to be able to offer wireless charging for any item thrown in there. The smart charging bowl is a reference design built to help make charging more convenient and complement Intel's Jarvis smart headset that it also launched at CES. The smart wireless charging bowl is approximately 10in in diameter and works via magnetic resonance technology, which Intel said is the foundation for the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) wireless charging standard that it is helping to develop. It means users should be able to throw their smartphones and tablets into the bowl to charge without having to mess around with fiddly charging cables or ports. Unfortunately, the demo unit showed in the video wasn’t a working model but you can see how it would work in a real environment. The chipmaker said that it is developing wireless charging technology to deliver "no wires convenience" based on the A4WP industry specification across a broad range of mobile devices in the future, such as headsets, phones, tablets and even ultrabooks and hybrid devices. µ