Hands up who wants a levitating iPhone charger?

Exhausted by a morning of skimming Trump Tweets and gazing at YouTube mashups, our iPhones spend the better part of the afternoon plugged into a charger.

Rather than keeping it tethered to the Earth by a white cable, how about changing things up. About five centimetres up.

This hovering piece of magnificence is the OvRcharge: a wireless phone charger that utilises a nifty bit of magnet magic to add some much needed theatre to an otherwise tedious process.

How does it work?

3d1f1ff1963c1ece22d991ca15a8ff0b-1556726810-jp2q-column-width-inline — The floating and charging trick is owed to a special phone case: hidden within the case's thin layer of plastic is a set of copper coils that pick up charge from the accompanying charge base. It also contains a small magnet that repels a second, larger magnet in the charge base.OvRcharge makes super thin cases for all major models of Apple, Samsung, LG, Sony and Hauwei phone. HTC 10 and OnePlus 3 users are also covered.

Floating, with style

763bd906ce8cb8a4895d99cc1399734c-1556726810-fiXp-column-width-inline — Plug in the charge base, position your phone a few centimetres above it and you're good to go.There's also a larger version available for tablets.

How do I get one?!

The OvRcharge is currently seeking backers on Kickstarter.

Should it achieve its goal (it's over halfway toward its $40,000 target already), you'll be able to buy a charger for around £180, with delivery due for December 2016.

Now, could someone figure out how we could get our computer monitor to do a similar trick?