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Sony and Others Form TransferJet Consortium to Make Short-Range Wireless Tech

Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Toshiba JVC, Kodak, Hitachi and a bunch more companies have today announced that they're forming the Transferjet consortium to develop an "interoperable wireless transfer technology." Sounding like a challenge to Bluetooth, Transferjet will apparently operate at a theoretical 560 Mbps rate. Plus it could allow pairing as simply as touching two devices together: your camera could display pics on TV simply by sitting it atop the screen. Sounds like a great consumer solution, but since the consortium has yet to define specs, it'll be a while until the project bears fruit. With big players like this aboard though, other wireless data systems must be feeling the pressure. Press release below. More »

5:14 AM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Kit Eaton
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Latest by n/a: lol at the Sony haters. Can't read the rest of the details to see its lots of other CE's involved? more »

Tornado Survives Gadget Thunderdome Yahoo Tech hosted its annual Last Gadget Standing competition at CES this morning. Ten gadgets entered, but only one left victorious: Data Drive Thru's USB data transfer cable, The Tornado.

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peripherals

USB Yenta Gets Computers Together


With this USB data transfer device from Think Geek, it's a snap to connect one computer to another. Simply plug one 4-foot retractable USB 2.0 cable into one computer, and the other cable into another, and then you're off and running, dragging and dropping between the two with reckless abandon. It happens quickly, too, at 25Mb per second, and a blue LED indicator light lets you know that all is well. Pocket-sized at just under 4 inches tall, it's $50. A true mitzvah! More »

1:32 PM on Thu Feb 2 2006
By Charlie White
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Latest by sammy baby: Or, I guess you could just pack a crossover ethernet cable, go nic-to-nic and get close to 100 Mbps (more, if you're running gig-e). A little more to configure, but not usually that hard. more »