@A pointless technology, surely?

Not exactly, wireless power devices allow power to be transmitted over several metres and are designed to be easily hidden from view (e.g. flat panel that hangs behind a picture on the wall).

At some indeterminate future point you will be able to buy transmitters to install in your home as well as a hopefully large number of devices with the receiver built in. (Current solutions have adapters at the moment, but they mean you have a dongle that needs to plug into whatever you want to power, largely defeating the point on mobile devices.)

So, you set up a transmitter in, say, your lounge then as you sit and watch TV in the evening you get your mobile phone/mp3 player/PSP/whatever charged without taking it out of your pocket.

Or you can use your portable computing device of choice without draining the battery or having to look for the mains adaptor.

Or your robotic vacuum cleaner can bumble freely around without needing to pop to the charging station at regular intervals.

Anyway, I think you get the idea now :-)

But I think you're right about the anti-radiation crowd.

I quite like the idea, however I'm not quite sure how you would stop neighbours using your power (either accidentally or deliberately).