A company called SiBeam picked up $40M in backing for their push to bring wireless high definition to the marketplace. High definition wireless will surely be the next big thing in home technology - or any other technology. What is it?
High def wireless will allow users to shove hulking high definition data like movies and video, for example, from one component to another, at home, without cables. You'll be able to send this data from your portable video camera to your TV. No wires. From iPod to computer. No wires.
CNET's wildly popular podcast of interminable length, Buzz Out Loud, kicked this topic around the other day. The BOL team said new technology comes down like this: first someone gets and idea. Then they form a club. Then they create a standard. Then we get the toy.
The idea has been bandied about the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) for years. The club is up and running, Wireless HD Consortium which is, right now, working on the standard. Experts, pundits and all the greedy gadgeteers are saying we should see this, marketside, by end of next year. Prepare - it's new, it'll likely be expensive as myrrh.
SiBeam, says pundit Patti Reali, is right up there running to the production line.
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