New chip on the block means faster file transfer

Move over wi-fi and bluetooth, says Georgia Tech Professor Joy Laskar. To date, both technologies have been considered the gold standard when it came to sending small amounts of data over short distances. But, Laskar says he and his team at Georgia Tech's Electronic Design Center have developed a way to move massive amounts of data … more quickly. Laskar says the secret to his new SM technology is unused high frequency radio waves. "If you watch Star Trek, and people talk about the communicators on their shirt, in a lot of ways what we're developing is the enabling technology for something like that. So what today might take ½ hour to an hour, might take a matter of seconds in the future." The application could make wi-fi obsolete and has the potential to serve both the consumer and defense markets. Laskar says he hopes the hardware for transferring files could be available by 2009 with chips installed in new tv sets by 2010.

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