http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/ Engadget Comments for Sony develops 11Gbps short-range wireless intra-connection http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/Feb 8th 2010 2:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/
Meh knowing how the world works by the time this is released there'll be 3 other alternatives with no chance of a universal solution...]]>Feb 8th 2010 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/Feb 8th 2010 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/
Despite what the article says about the purpose of this being to replace traces on a PCB (which sounds pretty idiotic to me), I think that Faforce has the only sensible application for such a technology: to provide short range communication for devices without a hard electrical interface.

Where I'd like to see something like this is in storage media. Imagine if you could have storage media without any exposed electrical contacts to corrode (maybe EM power too), or statically fry, or wear out. No more USB-Washing machine disasters, no more scratched DVDs etc. ]]>Feb 8th 2010 3:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/
Imagine iPhone / iPod docks that work with all the phones placed on it.]]>Feb 8th 2010 3:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/Feb 8th 2010 3:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/
My thoughts are "gadgets with folding screens", like laptops. No wires running through the hinges could make it easier to replace broken screens. ]]>Feb 8th 2010 4:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/
And the screens would be powered how?]]>Feb 8th 2010 4:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/Feb 8th 2010 4:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/
you guys are talking about TransferJet... which is another technology Sony is pushing. ]]>Feb 8th 2010 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/Feb 8th 2010 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/Feb 8th 2010 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/Feb 8th 2010 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/
how many lines and length of printed circuitry will this replace in a 40"+ flatscreen? Even if it replaces a hundred 14mm printed circuit, wouldn't that add up to only 1.4 m? Just how will that help?]]>Feb 8th 2010 3:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/Feb 8th 2010 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/
So, plunk your phone, pod, gps, player, etc on a mat, and your network can talk to it while it charges.]]>Feb 8th 2010 3:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/
Cool.]]>Feb 8th 2010 3:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/Actually, the main company behind the new "Qi" wireless charging spec includes data communication capability in the charger.

So we'll probably have that sooner than you think!
-Taylor]]>Feb 8th 2010 3:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/
I expect there'll be places where a physical connection is a problem. They don't want a ribbon cable going from x to y. I have no idea what those circumstances would be. It doesn't sound like an "end user" tech. Not something designed for you to plug your iPod into. It's more for inside the guts of things.
]]>Feb 8th 2010 3:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/Feb 8th 2010 3:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/Exactly what I was thinking.]]>Feb 8th 2010 5:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/
+1

This technology sounds even more ridiculous when you convert 14mms to inches. 1/2" of copper doesn't weight jack.

The only real use for this technology that I can see is what a few other people have alluded to already - gadget-to-gadget communication.
I could see this being used alongside induction-charging.... where that offers wireless charging, and this Sony tech could offer up wireless comm. ]]>Feb 8th 2010 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/Feb 8th 2010 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/Feb 8th 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/ ]]>Feb 8th 2010 3:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/If sony wants to add a tuner to a monitor to make it a TV, with something like this they could just slap on a module that just needs connections for power and ground. Eliminating the data interconnects means simpler connections and less traces to route. Plus, at 11Gbps, that's not a trivial data rate. You have to route a lot of traces very carefully to move some data at 11Gbps. If all they have to do is take a few different sub-boards and slap them on one simple main board, they could make their electronics simpler and cheaper. Even if that is all on one board, taking a few pre-designed sections is easier than routing it all together.

And of course, as someone already said, this is a tool that an engineer would only use if it makes sense. But in making modular designs, they could really reduce a lot of cost.]]>Feb 8th 2010 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/Feb 8th 2010 3:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/sony-develops-11gbps-short-range-wireless-intra-connection/
swap out some parts to create a totally new product and charging full price for that, while keeping production costs down.... lazy, evil people....

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