Nokia has come up with a unique prototype cell phone design that can recharge itself with no wires. The experimental cell phone harvests ambient radio waves from the air and turns them into useable power.

According to Nokia, wireless waves of energy scatter throughout the environment and bounce around the air as wasted energy, it's all around us. Nokia collects these minute bits and pieces of energy waves uses them to create an electrical current. It's the same paradigm explored in great depth by Nicola Tesla at the turn of the century.

Even though the current collection ability is an infinitesimal 5 milliwatts, Nokia hopes to raise that to 50 milliwatts in the near future. While it couldn’t power the phone during a conversation, it could theoretically constantly recharge the phones battery at a tiny rate, providing the possibility of unending power.

Nokia sees a fully commercial application of this technology in three to five years.