FreePower wins Best-of-KBIS for the third consecutive year

Phoenix, AZ
February 20, 2026
FreePower wins Best-of-KBIS for the third consecutive year

For the third year in a row, FreePower has been awarded Best-of-KBIS.

This time, it was FreePower for Countertop 2: our most advanced wireless charging platform to date.

KBIS is where the future of in-home innovation is on full display. To be recognized there year after year affirms embedded power has an essential role to play in the infrastructure of our lives.

Since 2017, FreePower has continued to redefine what wireless charging can be. Along the way, we’ve earned accolades including Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative and CES' Innovation Award. Those honors came from breaking new ground in form and function, turning charging from a visible accessory into an invisible, integrated experience inside stone surfaces.

While our design evolved, the wireless charging industry still faced a performance ceiling. With FreePower for Countertop 2, we broke right through it.

This latest generation powers devices faster, more precisely, and more efficiently than ever, making it the highest-performing embedded wireless charger available today. It's the first to deliver high-power experiences specifically designed for larger devices like laptops and tablets, providing up to 65W per device, with smartphone charging speeds comparable to USB-C. This level of performance was once considered impossible, but our exceptional engineering team made it happen.

Rather than being a short-term feature, it’s built as long-term infrastructure: future-ready, adaptable, and designed for the next decade of device evolution.

Our invisible Charging Halo also received a style upgrade. The system can now detect the capacitance of your hand from inches away — even through stone. Simply wave your hand over the surface and the Halo softly appears, guiding your device to the active charging zone before disappearing again. Like magic.

FreePower for Countertop 2 will be available in Fall 2026.

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About FreePower

In 2017, FreePower (FKA Aira) took the first steps toward reinventing a technology that had always fallen short of expectations: wireless charging. Today, we have more than 250 patent assets for our advanced system, all of which were engineered in-house. After years of perfecting the technology, we launched the second-generation FreePower with Tesla in 2023, followed by our latest innovation: FreePower for Countertop. The technology won a multitude of awards in 2024 including 3 CES Innovation Awards, IIDA Product Design Award, KBB’s Kitchen Product of the Year, the coveted KBIS Best-in-Show Award, and Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech. We are now partnering with leading architects, designers, builders, and fabricators to bring power to the spaces that connect us, with FreePower now available in more than 450 showrooms and fabrication shops across the United States. Learn more at https://www.freepower.io.