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Thanks to MakeMoney I was introduced to this news article and new technology that may revolutionize not only the communications field but life. I thought it would be fun to start a thread and follow the progress of this new technology. According to the article, mass market products are years away so don't hold your breath. The USA Today article: usatoday.com Here's an excerpt: Technology could revolutionize life By Kevin Maney, USA TODAY HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A little-known company in this city of rocket scientists is about to explode onto the scene with an invention that might be as important as the transistor or electric light bulb. The company is Time Domain. Its breakthrough is the work of Larry Fullerton, a lone inventor who harks back to the era of Thomas Edison. His invention is a way to transmit information wirelessly, but not using radio waves. Instead, it uses pulses of radio energy, fired out at 10 million to 40 million pulses a second. The potential impact is astounding. If the technology lives up to its promise, it would be like the leap from vacuum tubes to the transistor or from oil lamps to light bulbs, touching every home and workplace. Wireless communicators could get down to the size of a quarter. Radar could become cheap and commonplace. A home radar system could be used for security, detecting movement inside and distinguishing a cat from a man. Already a reality is hand-held radar that police can use to see inside a room before bursting in. The pulse technology, sometimes also called ultra-wide band (UWB), could launch whole new industries and reorder several existing ones in coming decades. "This is a technology that's as radical as anything that's come up in recent years," says Paul Turner, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers who has studied Time Domain and advised the upstart company. Others agree. Representatives from major technology companies have trooped to Huntsville the past few months. "If they can really pull it off in volume, it can be quite huge," says IBM Vice President Ron Soicher, who admits to getting goose bumps when he realized the potential.explode onto the scene with an invention that might be as important as the transistor or electric light bulb. Time Domain's Homepage: time-domain.com | ||||||||||||
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