[Wear-Hard] Wireless USB gadgets trickle into marketplace

[Steve Barr]

http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6196713.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news

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Like wired USB was more than a decade ago, Wireless USB is a classic example
of a "chicken-and-egg" technology problem, where two parts of the industry
depend on each other to make products useful. In the case of Wireless USB,
the parties involved are, on the one hand, computer makers who must build
Wireless USB support into their PCs and, on the other, device makers whose
products are at the other end of those connections.

Wireless hub products could help jump-start the industry by bridging from
the existing wired USB world to a wireless future, and Belkin competitors
likely will announce their own products as soon as this week. Such systems
typically have two components: a "dongle" that plugs into a PC's wired USB
port and gives the computer Wireless USB abilities, and a hub with four
wired USB ports for connecting current devices.

The dongle can communicate with future Wireless USB-enabled products and, of
course, with the hub. And next-generation PCs with Wireless USB built-in
will be able to communicate with the hub and whatever wired USB devices are
plugged into it. Wireless USB has a maximum range of about 30 feet but isn't
designed to penetrate walls.
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Now we just need to make peripherals solar-/vibration- powered to get rid of
batteries too. :-)
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