New chip claims multi-gigabit transfers over 60GHz RF

I guess ya'll did'nt get the memo. Look harder.

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Originally Posted by Thorn

Wireless TV? Wow!

Uh, wait, hasn't that been around since about 1928? :p

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Smart ass. :p

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Originally Posted by PeppersGhost

There is a push on to get rid of ALL wire's.

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They're still gonna have a power cable so they may as well put the signal on the power cable (like they do with Ethernet over power cables). One crowd got rid of the power cable by using fancy magnets to transmit power, but the distance was very small and the power was quite low (they charged something like a mobile phone simply by placing onto a special magnetic pad).

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They're still gonna have a power cable so they may as well put the signal on the power cable (like they do with Ethernet over power cables). One crowd got rid of the power cable by using fancy magnets to transmit power, but the distance was very small and the power was quite low (they charged something like a mobile phone simply by placing onto a special magnetic pad).

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My teethbrush has done that for years. The new Palm phone charges the same way as well. The trick to this is make it work over distances of more than an inch or two.

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Originally Posted by Barry

My teethbrush has done that for years. The new Palm phone charges the same way as well. The trick to this is make it work over distances of more than an inch or two.

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Plus it isn't very efficient way to transfer the power needed to run larger devices.

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I suspect that "Devices without wires" will be right up there with "the paperless office" as a big lie of electronics.

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They "started" doing this, at least in the Air Force, about two years ago. Still not 100% but they've done away with at least 4 career fields because of it.

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Originally Posted by ShadowKill

They "started" doing this, at least in the Air Force, about two years ago. Still not 100% but they've done away with at least 4 career fields because of it.

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Which? The "paperless office"? It's about time, since it's been talked about for over 50 years. I've been hearing it since I was a kid, and it was 'supposed' to be in place circa 1970. The truth of the matter is that most offices will take never get rid of or replace all the paper. Part of the reason is that paper is dirt cheap as opposed to magnetic media. The price of paper in an office is physical storage space. It's also a powerless technology. You can read a book (or field manual) by candlelight if you have to, but even the cheapest PDA requires a charged battery to run it.

Going back to the wireless HDMI, the economics of the situation can't be overlooked either. A $50 chip isn't cheap, it's hugely expensive. Most mass produced chips are well in the $1-$2 range. It's a hell of a lot cheaper to put a $0.10 connector on a device and sell the consumer a $5 cable. Even when the price of these chips drops, I still don't see it being used for things like HDMI.

$5!!! Where do you get your cables??

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$5!!! Where do you get your cables??

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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cable

1a???

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Which? The "paperless office"? It's about time, since it's been talked about for over 50 years. I've been hearing it since I was a kid, and it was 'supposed' to be in place circa 1970. The truth of the matter is that most offices will take never get rid of or replace all the paper. Part of the reason is that paper is dirt cheap as opposed to magnetic media. The price of paper in an office is physical storage space. It's also a powerless technology. You can read a book (or field manual) by candlelight if you have to, but even the cheapest PDA requires a charged battery to run it.

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Yes, going paperless. You are right about the risks of relying on technology but from the .mil perspective personnel costs of 150 -vs- 10 (airmen) outweighs the cost of a new battery every now and then.