The wireless charging movement is getting one more boost today, this time from the world of gaming. Razer[1], the tech giant that has built a brand (and very loyal following) as a gaming-first hardware company, is announcing HyperFlux, a new wireless power technology that will be making its first appearance a new mouse, the Razer Mamba HyperFlux, and a corresponding power mat.
Priced at $249.99 (€279.99) the mouse and matt will be launched in Q1 of this year.
The decision to opt for a mouse is interesting for a couple of reasons. The first is that the mouse is the product with which Razer — which went public last year in Hong Kong[2], and now has a market cap of around $4.7 billion — first made its name several years ago.
The second is that the reason it was Razer’s first big peripheral, and remains a key item, is because of its central role for gamers. I’m guessing that if adoption of it takes off — along with a general growth of wireless charging overall — we might see Razer adding more products into the mix.
While Razer is not known for making entirely new products that no one has ever seen before, what it’s generally very good at is building and optimizing typical hardware in a way that makes it especially useful and appealing to gaming enthusiasts (and in particular those who are already Razer fans).
That is the case with the HyperFlux, too. Razer said it has built it using a magnetic field to transfer power to the mouse in real-time, rather than charging a battery, as many other wireless architectures are built today (for example for phones). This means that the mouse...