The first "drop-and-charge" devices "before the end of the year"

Living in a self-proclaimed "high-tech university city" like Cambridge, as I do, fascinating technology crops up everywhere. Go out for a meal in the evening and the chances are you'll be eavesdropping on folks at the next table discussing some new project which will change the world (or sink without trace, even if it seemed like a good idea at the time). Standing outside school the other afternoon waiting to pick up our toddlers, one of the Mums was telling me all about the revolutionary display technology soon to be brought to market by the company she and her husband run.
Even though all this is taken for granted, I like the look of Splashpower, another Cambridge development project which is close to hitting the big time. With the rechargeable battery finally becoming ubiquitous in mobile entertainment and communications devices, we all need a standard charger rather than loads of "docks" and loose cables on our desks. But Splashpower hopes to go one step further and eliminate the cabling altogether, using the same inductive charging technology most commonly associated with electric toothbrushes. Just drop all your rechargeable devices on a "charging pad" and you're done.
My colleagues on Electronicstalk covered this a couple of years ago, as you'd expect, but they tell me news has been thin on the ground since then. However, the product is now a lot further down the road, so it inevitably comes into our area of product design.
According to a report in New Scientist, there should be the first "drop-and-charge" devices "before the end of the year". I can't wait to hear more. And I want one (as well as gadgets with compatible batteries, naturally).