Reporting live from Sydney’s TechFest, there is one particular innovation that is bound to interest Gizmodo readers: a search engine that switches text for human action.
As usual, just as 802.11n is being finalised news hits about a much faster wireless specification. An Australian NICTA team claims to have made a CMOS chip capable of 5Gbps transmission speeds at a distance of 9.75 metres. Their so called “GiFi” transmitter is small and cheap, but is not yet approved by the IEEE nor independently speed tested. Even if this is real, the 2W power consumption will prevent it from dethroning 802.11n in mobile devices. [Ars]
