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TransferJet Consortium Works Towards Touch Data Transfer Tech

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the ease-of-use dept.

Iddo Genuth writes to tell us that many of the large tech companies have banded together in order to develop TransferJet technology. Discussed earlier this year, TransferJet promises to allow rapid data transfer between devices in close proximity. "The group of companies involved in the development of TransferJet has been tagged the 'TransferJet Consortium' and includes many industry giants such as Sony, Canon, Kodak, Nikon, Pioneer, Toshiba, Samsung and many others. The companies intend to market a broad array of products and services incorporating TransferJet technology with the intention of increasing its usage through the consumer electronics industry. With this new technology, there will be no need for access points or complex data transfer setups. By touching the two devices together, intuitive operation will kick in and the files will be transferred automatically."

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  1. Just like IRdA? by mediocubano · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I thought IRDA (Infrared) was supposed to do this - my Palmpilot had infrared syncing, and HP tried with some of its printers, and I had a Motorola 2-way pager that also had the ability. My Dell laptop still has an infrared window on it.

    1. Re:Just like IRdA? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 3, Interesting

      RF based technology has pretty much murdered IRDA, presumably because dealing with IR line of sight was seen as a nuisance(the proliferation of 2.4ghz RF silicon, and thus its reduced price, probably didn't hurt). There may be other reasons as well, IRDA seemed to slip underwater surprisingly quickly and quietly for something so cheap and simple.

  2. I thought WiMedia won by doojsdad · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wireless USB (WUSB) and Bluetooth 3.0 are already using WiMedia http://www.wimedia.org/en/index.asp