USB Going Wireless

NathanJ writes "Device Forge is running a technical whitepaper on wireless USB. The article states that 'Already there has been some progress with the definition of a WUSB specification with a targeted bandwidth of 480 Mbps. This specification maintains the same usage and architecture as wired USB with a high-speed host-to-device connection.' And that 'the WUSB host can logically connect 127 WUSB devices.' So what am I going to do with my Bluetooth desktop?" Update Holy Deja vu batman... here is an earlier Slashdot article that I missed from 3 weeks ago. Oops.

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[BJZQ8]

Abandon it. Bluetooth was too little, too soon. Where tech executives saw people exchanging business cards with their PDA's, the real world saw a wireless connection with a range of 3 feet and a mere kilobits of bandwidth. I think it was more of a prolonged back-patting session for "Bluetooth Special Interest Group" members and less of a means of providing function to the customer.

Re:Ummm... not quite

[sybase]

how is this different from any other wireless technology? .. get a life.

Good!

[Fangzhi]

The specification is good!

Yes this is a good idea for my pc

[neckdeepinspecialsau]

Please put a bunch of magnets on a fan and have it swing past my hard drive. Why don't you save time and effort and not install a hardrive in my machine. Or am I missing something?

Re:480 Mbps wirelessly?

[Beatbyte]

They renamed the 400mbps+ USB to IEEE1394 ;-D