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Intel Promises UWB Products By 2006

Posted by timothy on from the that's-a-long-way-off dept.

prostoalex writes "Ultra WideBand radio is a technology that allows transmitting huge amounts of data over a short distance at very low power. At Intel Developer Forum this week Ben Manny, director of wireless technology development at Intel Research and Development, promised market deployment of UWB-based solutions by 2005-2006. Possible applications of UWB can be discovered in this article that also refers to UWB as 'Bluetooth on steroids'."

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  1. Finally, wireless monitors! by Suidae · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does this mean I can get rid of all my video switches and just connect the keyboard and mouse to the monitor and connect to whichever CPU I want?

    That would kick ass.

  2. Steroids. by Xunker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Can we get rid of this expression? Please? It's, like totally, from the 1980's. It's so aniquated and cliche'd that's it's not funny (literally anf figuratively).

    A better 21st century expression would probably "Bluetooth on a double-hit of Viagra".

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  3. Hmm.. no cables so how does the data move? by WinPimp2K · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh yeah. it is wireless.
    So,that means there is some type of receiver with a fair amount of processing power to turn that lovely EM burst back into nice clean digital data.

    A receiver in every device, and of course a transmitter as well which uses that same processing power to turn digital data into EM bursts.

    So, no more cables to hook up your monitor or speakers or other devices. There are some definite possibilities for convergence between HDTV and computer monitors here - why continue to build TV tuner circutry into your video display device? after all, you don't have built in FM tuners in every speaker.

    BUT:
    This sure sounds like just the sort of massive technological change that is exactly what the DRM people are looking for to piggyback Pay-Per-Everything onto. Certainly there will be plenty of processing power to implement some nasty strong encryption scheme in the UWB hardware.

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  4. Re:Possible applications of UWB by SerpentMage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And this is where I would even consider that this technology never be implemented. I read someplace else that airlines may do a blanket ban on all electronic devices if UWB does conflict with airplanes. Imagine how boring those long flights will be now!

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