This is the type of thing that will doom eBooks to failure. How can anyone equate a mechanized text-to-speech voice to a human being narrating an audio book? Sorry, Amazon, but it's this kind of crap that's going to keep me from buying a Kindle anytime soon.

We have something like this today; it's called the microwave oven. Microwave energy is a frequency that causes water molecules to vibrate, causing food to heat. That is wireless transmission of power, a significant amount of power. The old crystal radio headsets ran off of the power of the radio signal itself. Obviously, there's not a whole lot of power in a radio signal, but enough to do some real work. The original pacemakers were recharged daily by magnetic induction. There's a bunch of devices that have been powered wirelessly. If this new system works safely, it would be fantastic.