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Wireless at Firewire Speeds?
MeCoward writes "EETimes reporting on working group that hopes to leapfrog 802.11 to create wireless 1394 links.
Initially 100mbps but aiming for 400mbps." I don't expect to see this anytime soon, but it certainly makes things like wireless HDTV feasible. Sure would be cool. Of course Bluetooth is only now just catching on, so imagine how long it'll be before this becomes practical.
but it certainly makes things like wireless HDTV feasible
:P
Because right now you can't pick up HDTV from over-the-air signals... right????
If 802.11g didn't make you want to stick your head in front of a Cantenna to get a preview of brain tumors to come, this new standard certainly will.
To think, wireless HDTV! That would be like - like getting HDTV over the air! You would just need an antenna, maybe a fancy converter box. Who could think it possible? Wouldn't it be cool if they could do multiple channels at the same time? *sigh* Jeff
Wow, if they had wireless HDTV, they could put that in the UHF spectrum and free up the VHF spectrum for other uses!
if yes, then it is a crime and must be banned!
I was worried I would have to wait years for WiFi and cell phones to give me brain cancer.
This should move up my timetable considerably AND increase the number of locations in my home I can place the HDTV that I cannot yet afford. Bonus!
Back in high school I did some student co-op work at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque. They had (among other cool things) a giant concrete tower used for solar collection testing. A wide array of mirrors on the ground focused sunlight up to the top of the tower, heating the salty water circulating inside.
The cool thing was the actual spot where all the mirrors focused. It glowed, shimmered, and attracted small birds. As the birds flew into the beam... !POOF! A few stray, charred feathers were all that remained.
As the power of all these wireless and cellular technologies increases, I feel more and more like that bird. I can't resist the draw of these bright, shiny objects, but one of these days I'm going to step between two 802.something access points and get zapped into ash.
Well, duh. They didn't have tinfoil hats 200 years ago.
http://www.remix.net/
Well, it's based on Firewire, but there's no wire... It travels through the air with no wire, kinda like a bird.
I've got it, let's call it "FireBird"... I can't forsee any problems with using that name, and I've done months of research...
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Instantly "Firewireless" popped into my mind, but that just doesn't have the same ring to it...
And where the hell has the "Post Anonymously" box gone?!