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- wildfire, on 10/10/2007, -5/+63My balls are tingling just thinking about it...
...Oh wait, that's RF-induced cancer. - DiscusRapidus, on 10/10/2007, -3/+36My hard drive can't read or write that fast!
- an0nymous, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Obviously they are not aware of my pioneering work in this field. I can deliver a much larger throughput over 50 meters wirelessly, using my patented "trebuchet full of DVDs" technology.
- CompIsMyRx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Or it auto-negotiates like 802.11 does. Get far enough away from a router and the speeds drop to increase connectivity.
- theshizzler, on 10/10/2007, -5/+12now I can download porn from my neighbor's unsecured wireless internet even faster!
- mz00m, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Unable to pass through... because its slamming into all that damned DNA.
- shortarabguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6"the ultra-high frequency 60GHz band used for transmission is unable to pass through human skin, creating line-of-sight issues which engineers have yet to unkink."
The ability of a frequency to pass through objects is not one of those things that you "unkink". It's like saying "well, we're able to cross from the southwest corner of New York City to the northeast corner in 3 minutes with a car, but we have to work out that kink of getting through buildings and people and... stuff, instead of around them." - romistrub, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Unable to pass *through* human skin. Skin cancer ftw!
- screwloose45, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9Because 'a one meter range' is really WiFi...
- xike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Great...I'll just move in on my ISP's lawn and we're all set.
- brad016, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The point they made about this technology was to eliminate wires from inside computers. like HD to Motherboard, no wires, just a super fast wireless connection, making removal and replacement much easier with no wires.
- Wailord, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6It says in the article, and it's obviously proof-of-concept.
- aDJsavedmylife, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Is it me or are people on digg getting more and more simple?
- thesarlacc, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6That's the biggest problem now: deciding which bottlenecks to widen. Unfortunately the humble hard drive isn't a popular target...
What's the point of having 20Gbps wireless if it cant be stored that fast?? A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. - beaumont911, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3For one, meters and metres are both correct. Just you Americans prefer the latter.
And your house is five meters? Nice house. - gpmidi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It means that they might be able to apply the technology to other frequencies that will pass through skin and such.
- broeks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3If he's dumb enough to leave his router wide open, I doubt he'll be the first to adopt 15 Gbps wifi...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3at 1 meter, i would just use a cable
- thedragon4453, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Well, If I ever need to download from a slight distance away from my desktop, I'm set.
Seriously though, hope this tech works out. Although, then we'd have to develop faster hdds. - CaputNoodle, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4I am an EE undergrad at Georgia Tech and I wondered into a talk about this technology (mostly so that I could eat the free pizza). The researcher giving the talk didn't go into a lot of details about how the technology worked, but he spent a lot of time emphasizing the usefulness of analog circuits, which are becoming more and more a lost art in today's digital society. Here is a link with more info: http://www.ece.gatech.edu/research/labs/mag/gbps_wireless.htm
- endeavormac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2A peak data transfer rate of 15 Gigabit/s at a distance of 1 meter, 10 Gigabit/s at a distance of 2 meters and 5 Gigabit/s at a distance of 5 meters have been achieved.
- aarongough, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2ROFL! best laugh I've had all day!
- Revlution4ever, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Get out of town!!
...then hook it up in mine. - thall, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1With enough power it can go through the whole planet!!
- thall, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1But enough drives in parallel can.
- manitoba98xp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Sync your iPod/Zune/MP3 player of choice in a few seconds? (Yes, I realize there's a hard drive limitation.)
- flashback99, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Goodbye telephony, hello video conferencing.
- thall, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1ionization results from high energy transfer. you can ionize something with DC (that's 0 Hz) given enough energy.
- TVarmy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Speed isn't so much the issue, but I can see this being more reliable. Mobos would probably break less. I remember reading a while back about how in a few years, high end servers and supercomputers will need to use fiber optics and lasers to transmit data faster than traditional bus speed (Speed of light vs. 1/3rd the speed of light). I wonder if this is a simpler way to do that, without having to worry about integrating fiber optics into a PCB.
- buddyfarr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1holy ***** dude, your house is only 16 feet long?? sucks to be you.
- sabach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Sync your file server or SQL server to a FreeNAS box
- CryptiniteDemon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2It's natural for that to happen as a site gets more popular. Typically after the select niche finds its way to a hub, the lay people start to hear the clatter and they move in for the stash too. I mean myspace used to actually be a tolerable site. Now look at it with 100 million users. Happening to facebook too. Only a matter of time before digg is swamped with idiots too.
- Peterix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You could use green laser for that. It's not wifi, but it should work and meet your requirements...
Actually, such laser/SATA SATA/laser or other combinations could be very impressive. With SATA being serial, it wouldn't even be that hard to make. You could probaly use two laser/detector pairs to connect the devices.
Just make sure it's safe.. those lasers can be really hard on your eyes. - drmsux, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1because downloading podcasts is the next new thing..oh wait, it's not..you can actually stream them with 3G phones..EDGE is so last century -)
- ishmal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That sounds like the same range and performance as UWB/ELP, which apparently will be much cheaper to implement.
- TVarmy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, your RAM and CPU can. It might be useful for streaming very high def video or maybe a network game that shares a lot of variables with other PCs (Like very complicated physics, AI, etc). Granted, it's a ton for that, too, and it would probably be a very specialized purpose for a long time. Maybe it will show up in HDTVs as a way to facilitate IPTV, but then again 802.11N looks like plenty for that, too.
- josi81, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Sounds like a good idea, but the article doesn't mention anything about it.
I think it will be a long time before BUS speed will be a bottleneck in computer design... - thesarlacc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I agree. BUS Speed is enough for quite a while yet..best break the HD bottleneck first.
Also dont forget that wireless still needs wires for power. It wont be "true wireless" per se. - doublsh0t, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4now Google just has to buy Georgia Tech and it'll be free and widespread :)
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Go Jackets!! Woo!
- gordonf238, on 10/10/2007, -0/+060Ghz RF can penetrate 10 feet of concrete. Where did you read that nonsense about skin?
- edwartica, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Here's to posting crappy reactions to digg stories at faster speeds!
- littlerampage08, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Just increase the distance and it's sold
- gordonf238, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Great, all we need now is more EM waves running through our brains. As if the current 54Mbps Wi-Fi wasn't fast enough. Most people's internet connections never even reach that speed.
- jpaddington, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0with Google now going full on with integration for the iPhone, it's only a matter of space-time before they control the universe
http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_launching_its_own_iPhone_app - cbdgr, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2don't have to worry about that says "although the ultra-high frequency 60GHz band used for transmission is unable to pass through human skin" therefore no RF cancer right?
- theshizzler, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2oh no! admin:admin doesn't work anymore!
- Spuy767, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0And I said to myself, "This major in Electrical Engineering and minor in Photovoltaics is for the ***** birds. I'm changing to an Information systems degree." :-(
- joeycerone, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1to hell with georgia!
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