Looks like we’ll be seeing more and more of this ‘wireless charging’ thing coming to our home. Well, at least Canon is providing this hi-tech stuff to us right now. You can now ditch all your different-sized battery packs, and card reader, and data cables. Here comes Canon’s Cross Media Station.

Finally shown to the world after being teased at the Canon Expo last month, the prototype device looks something like a chubby scanner from a dark future. However, the top is actually an inductive charging pad. Set your camera up there (up to three at once) and a blue light will pop on to indicate flowing electricity.

While the power heads one direction the data goes whizzing by in the other, pictures pulled and categorized on the device based on time, place, and recognized faces. As you can see in the video after the break, photos can be displayed over HDMI onto your HDTV.

The wireless data technology should be TransferJet as Canon is a member of that consortium, but there’s no info regarding the wireless charging. Check out the video of how it works at below. Currently Canon is still using an adapter to do this, but new products should have this adapter integrated into them soon.

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