At CES 2010 Haier is displaying an ingenious prototype TVthat utlizes WiTricity and the new wireless High Definition video standard (WHDI).  This is a LCD TV powered wirelessly from a distance and displaying content delivered wirelessly from a Haier prototype Blu-ray player.

Haier's 22" LED HDTV

WHDI provides an uncompressed wireless link that supports delivery of 1080p, 1080i and 720p content in the 5GHz unlicensed band with a range beyond 100 feet, through walls, with latency at less than one millisecond.

WiTricity Corp. was founded in 2007 to commercialize a new technology for wireless electricity invented in 2005 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Initial venture capital funding came from Stata Ventures and Argonaut Private Equity.  Stata Ventures is a technology investment firm managed by Ray Stata, the founder, Chairman, and former CEO of Analog Devices. The technology transfers electric energy or power over distance without wires – the ability to provide electrical energy to remote objects without wires using oscillating magnetic fields.

There are a number of interesting implications for these technologies beyond the obvious convenience of being able to place a large TV virtually anywhere.