The news that the pan-industry ultrawideband group has approved the first UWB chipsets perhaps doesn’t strike you as the hottest bit of news you’ll read today, but if, like us, you’re cable-phobic, then this is great news. Intel’s UWB page has a few good examples of what UWB high-power, short-range wireless tech has to offer:
- A digital camcorder could play a just-recorded video on a friend’s HDTV without anyone having to fiddle with wires.
- A portable MP3 player could stream audio to high-quality surround-sound speakers anywhere in the room.
- A mobile computer user could wirelessly connect to a digital projector in a conference room to deliver a presentation.
- Digital pictures could be transferred to a photo print kiosk for instant printing without the need of a cable.
- An office worker could put a mobile PC on a desk and instantly be connected to a printer, scanner and Voice over IP (VoIP) headset
See? That all sounds pretty cool to us. So apparently we should expect to see the first products featuring UWB technology sometime in 2008. Looking at the tangle of nine cables around our laptop, Bluetooth 3.0 can’t come soon enough…
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