New High Speed Wireless Chipset from IBM 62
YesSir writes to tell us IBM scientists are reporting that they have created a new low-cost wireless chipset that could allow devices to communicate up to ten times faster than current technology. From the article: "Using the IBM-pioneered chip-making technology called silicon germanium, the chipset is able to send and receive information in a portion of the radio spectrum that is both unlicensed and can carry a much higher volume of data, a key advantage as data-intensive digital media formats, such as HDTV, become more pervasive."
Re:How long before the FCC closes "the IBM hole"? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:So basically... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:penetration (Score:3, Informative)
Frequency allocation. (Score:5, Informative)
IBM != Lenovo (Score:4, Informative)
O2 absorption (Score:5, Informative)
Quoth JH Van Vleck: "Even though electrically non-polar, oxygen gas absorbs microwaves because the magnetic moment of the O2 molecule interacts with electromagnetic fields." The Absorption of Microwaves by Oxygen [aps.org]
So molecular oxygen is an exception to the generally true assumption that a molecule needs to be polar to absorb EM radiation.
Re:Range (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Range (Score:3, Informative)
Easy. Buy a few containers of surplus batteries cheap. ^_^
Seriously, though, it should be possible to create a open standard em-charge desk-cover that would power anything you put on it, like monitor, mouse, keyboard, printer, mobilephone, portable harddrive, etc.
Not exactly cordless, but at least it's only one cord for everything ontop of the desk.
There already exist such pads, but they are proprietary and small.