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Wireless Controllers for Consoles

Posted by michael on from the copper-conservation dept.

captaincucumber writes: "Robert X. Cringley has an interesting article on his PBS Pulpit site about a new technology called SPIKE coming out of the gaming industry that will compete with Bluetooth here. As an interesting plus Cringley talks a little bit about proprietary vs. open standards."

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  1. Re:Interesting. by JabberWokky · · Score: 5
    Umm, wireless controllers for consoles have been out for years.

    How about ones that use a $6.25 chip that is shipping now that frequency hops, uses spread spectrum, outperforms bluetooth (which is at $100 a chip), and has a 50 MIPS RISC processor on-board that can be used as a processor for the unit itself, driving LCDs or other I/O panels.

    Again, all for $6.25.

    At least, that what he claims... now it's time to hit the site, and quite possibly order a few of these puppies (if they ship in low quantities).

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