IR Speeds Hit 1Gbps

Truth be told that the IR (Infared) port on my PDA’s and old laptops never saw much use since it was painfully slow to actually do anything via IR, and with Bluetooth and WiFi dominating the wireless transfer airwaves why would anyone bother with that old IR technology? KDDI R&D Laboratories are about to change the way you look at IR with it’s new technology that enables the IR transfer speed to hit a whopping 1Gbps shattering the old theory that you could only get 4Mbps out of it. Not only that, but they achieved the 1Gbps in a stable environment. KDDI claims that they can transfer an entire music CD in under a second.

I sure hope that can retrofit this new technology into my old hardware. Infared never looked so good.

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