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Monday, January 22, 2007
This year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), it was the coming out party for Wireless USB. Not too many products were retail shelf products, but there was an abundance of prototypes, many that were very appealing. Alereon demonstrated two digital cameras transferring pictures from one to the other and vice versa, all using wireless USB technology. Now that in itself is awesome, being able to send pics from one camera to the other without wires is cool. But this will also work with cell phones, which is even more compelling. All those teenage girls who can’t stop text messaging will love this. Alereon also demonstrated printing photos from a Kodak camera on a Kodak printer, also using the Wireless USB technology. It’s extraordinarily fast, and you don’t have the messy wires to deal with. They also demonstrated the ability to transfer pictures onto an HDTV.
This new WUSB technology is an awesome feature that provides very fast performance and keeps your desk nice and neat at the same time, free of all those annoying cables. This was demonstrated by Toshiba. They used a high data rate version of Wireless USB and a 5:1 compression to connect a laptop to a wireless-enabled docking station. This in turn drives the LCD monitor. According to representatives, using this technology you can have your laptop 18” to 30” away from your monitor with yup, you guessed it, no wires. Alereon demonstrated a similar mechanism using a chip from DisplayLink of the UK. It’s a PC driver that transmits in a compressed fashion display data over WUSB. At the other end the chip decompresses the data and drove it to an LCD monitor. Using this method, you could be on your couch with your laptop looking at photos, watching music or youTube videos, all on your LCD screen! All without the hassle of wires. Very cool.
In the automotive world, Intel and DaimlerChrysler demonstrated the connection between a mobile PC and a monitor in the headrest of a car, using controller chips from Intel and WUSB chips from Alereon. This can also be used for video iPods and other MP3 players. Life without wires. Sounds good to me.