New Technology Could Kill WiMax?

GolygyddMax writes "Techworld reports that a Florida-based start-up, xG, has developed a technology that's a 1000 times more efficient than WiMax and which could, in theory, lead to wireless LANs being powered by watch batteries. It is still in early development, but this technology could allow anyone to set up as an ISP. This could kill WiMax before it even gets off the ground." From the article: "At the demonstration with other reporters, we were able to verify that the signals were being sent wirelessly, and checked the distance by GPS, but had to take the 50mW base station - and its omnidirectional antenna - on trust, since it was at the top of an 850ft mast. The demonstration will be repeated for the US press next week. The system carried 7.4 Mbit/s per MHz per Watt, said Professor Schwartz. By comparison, GSM would have around 0.0058, and CDMA/EV-DO about 0.0085 Mbit/s per MHz per Watt. "

Comments

Professor Schwartz?

[Morgalyn]

Here I was thinking, for a moment, that they were talking about UF's professor in the ECE department, but nope, the guy is from Princeton.

Re:Frothy piss

[XFilesFMDS1013]

At least the trolls are getting a little more complex...

Re:Frothy piss

[P3NIS_CLEAVER]

I think somebody should create a "bird penis", or "revenge of the penis" asci image. Trolls need to diversify.

Somebody set up us the bomb.

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Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.