woolie t.

A co-worker has a couple of magazines he’ll toss to my office when he’s finished with them. Skimming through his most recent donation, the June 2008 issue of Computer, I noticed something I thought was neat and hadn’t yet heard of, Gi-Fi.

Gi-Fi = 5Gbits/sec at up to 32 feet

Unfortunately, you’d have to pay to read A New Wi-Fi for Peer-to-Peer Communications online ($19?!?! For realz?!?!). I’ll summarize for you:

Australians professor Stan Skafidas and his band of sidekicks have designed a Gi-Fi chip that can be built using well established manufacturing techniques. The chips believe in isolationism and have therefore bundled themselves into lonely little packages without needing external antennas. The hermit lifestyle and read-to-go manufacturing equals an item that is muy affordable. The only current drawback is the power consumption, a problem that the Aussies are currently tackling and expect to solve within the year.

Maybe Nintendo will do something cool with this. And yes, this post’s title rocks.