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Wireless USB makes a splash
Posted on Jan 6, 07 11:39 PM PDT
CES Unveiled - We know the all too familiar sound of plugging in a USB device, but you can now make such sweet music wirelessly. How, you ask? The answer lies in Wireless USB. This spanking new protocol was on display at CES, where the good folks at the Wireless USB booth took random photos via Kodak's dual lens V610 camera (retro fitting it with a wireless USB module of course) and uploaded it to a digital picture frame almost instantaneously. Wireless USB is a new protocol that was designed from ground up and offers an efficiency rate of 75% and 66% in a dedicated and shared environments respectively. It is capable of matching the USB 2.0 data rate of 480Mbps within a radius of 3 meters. This new technology will definitely go a great length in reducing the amount of wires that plague our desks on a daily basis. Hopefully more and more hardware manufacturers will implement wireless USB in the near future. The Wireless USB conglomerate expects to shift approximately 11 million units this year, with global sales of 289 million units by the end of this decade. It would be interesting to see how this technology competes with the current Bluetooth platform.
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By Rex Devious , 08/01/07 11:39 AM (CommentID #082606)
Personally, I've found Bluetooth to be remarkably unstable for an embedded device protocol. And now it's also the subject of a patent dispute. If wireless USB is simply more stable, it's a winner. It's really hard to appreciate how useful short-range connectivity is until you've set yourself with some Bluetooth headphones for your Treo (though it requires 3rd party software to hear music and audiobooks over it), and gotten them working. It's equally hard to appreciate how successful a more stable protocol would be until you've spent hours struggling to get the cool Bluetooth stuff working at all, only to see it completely crash every device involved as soon as you do anything else.
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