Wireless USB Lives — Warpia Easy Dock
Reports of the death of wireless USB are premature, as the Warpia Easy Dock proves. The Easy Dock is a way to hook either Windows notebooks or MacBooks up to a full desktop configuration, wirelessly. A keyboard, mouse, monitor and other peripherals are connected to the Easy Dock, which then connects to the notebook wirelessly using a simply USB dongle.
The dongle method makes sense for the Easy Dock as it makes it simple to switch multiple notebooks into the desktop configuration by moving the dongle from one notebook to another. The dock uses wireless USB technology from Wisair, and can wirelessly transmit screens up to 1400×1050 without loss of fidelity.
The Warpia Easy Dock is $149.99 and fully plug and play. Just plug in the USB dongle and the notebook is instantly connected to all of the peripherals on the dock. This might be a great way to use that netbook at home, as the Easy Dock is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, Mac OS X Leopard, and Snow Leopard.
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Can’t i already buy one of these from Toshiba? Check out the dynadock wireless U [dynadock.com]
An interesting question is whether this is ultrawideband or not. I suspect not.
the dynadock wireless U is absolutely UWB. it’s a wireless USB device certified by the USB-IF. looks like it uses an Alereon chipset http://www.wireless-usb.eu/wusb/?p=367