FireWire Gets Ready to Go Wireless 215
mindless4210 writes "The 1394 Trade Association has approved a specification for the development of wireless FireWire applications, which will let 1394-enabled devices, both wired and unwired, to connect with each other. The new spec will enable communication between a variety of devices, such as set-top boxes, HDTVs, tuners, and DVD players, all of which will be able to interoperate in home networks. Officials speculated that in the future there could be plug-in cards for set-top boxes enabling wireless connection to DVD players and hard-disk drives. The trade association also said it will work with the WiMedia Alliance to jointly develop collaborative products."
HDTV Wardriving (Score:4, Funny)
Great! Now that I've got this awesome free internet connection from my neighbors I can look forward to getting HBO without cables too! The future looks bright!
Good name. (Score:5, Funny)
Yes but can it charge my ipod? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes but can it charge my ipod?
Gonna keep my porn in the attic (Score:4, Funny)
It shall be called.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Good name. (Score:2, Funny)
New name? (Score:3, Funny)
And I thought MythPC was cool... Wait... (Score:2, Funny)
Great, so I wasted all my time on a SFF MythPC for nothing... J/K. Actually, come to think of it, my home theater is almost wireless already. I pulled back the entertainment center the other day to plug in the X-Box and decided to do some cleaning up (Gasp!). It was like a fight to the death between the lonely geek and the green glowing tenticle creature from bad anime pr0n. Anyway, I ended up pulling out about 4 composite A/V cables, an S-Video cord, numerous cat-5 cables, and some Molex plugs that werent being used.
How the molex's got there is beyond me. I think the cat may have had something to do with it. Little Kerberos has had her evil eyes on me since then, maybe I distrupted her evil plan to take over the world... Or at least the home network.
All lies (Score:5, Funny)
Its not fireWIRE at all. Better names would be:
FireFi
WiFire
Fireless
FiFi
FireTooth
NAWP (not another wireless protocol)
This is a hacker's dream come true!
Re:HDTV Wardriving (Score:1, Funny)
Re:HDTV Wardriving (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Firewire with no wires = no power. (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, read the spec. Firewireless can power your devices, too. You just have to buy the optional, 4 foot tall Tesla coil, and plug it into a 480 volt commercial power adapter.
I can say "read the spec" because I'm pretty sure you haven't... this is SLASHDOT!
Re:Firewire with no wires = no power. (Score:2, Funny)
--murph
Re:Good name. (Score:2, Funny)
Let me guess... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good name. (Score:2, Funny)
My computer is already FireWireless!
You forgot Gigabit-Ethernet (Score:1, Funny)
Re:New name? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Good name. (Score:4, Funny)
Or FiWiWiFi.
Re:A future without cables and wires (Score:1, Funny)
A friend of mine bought a spiffy machine a few
months ago -- fully loaded -- with a cordless
mouse and keyboard. When he cleaned the keyboard
(which was full of party grunge) in the upstairs
kitchen, he was startled to find he had started
almost every friggin program on his machine in the basement.
Moral of the story? Turn your machine off when you clean wireless peripherals
Re:New name? (Score:2, Funny)
I thought that perhaps Damocles [wikipedia.org]would be a better name for the next version of windows... whatever you do, the threat of dire and painful unpleasantness always hangs over you.
Or what about Sisyphus [wikipedia.org]? Legend has it that he was forced to endlessly push an enormous stone up a hill, only to have it roll straight down again. Reminds me of the endless and soul-crushing process of maintaining a windows system!
I'm sure there are heaps more good ones...
New technology? (Score:2, Funny)