Terahertz video transfer is foretaste of faster wireless

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http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13500

For the first time, German researchers have successfully transmitted video using a wireless signal in the terahertz range.

Video courtesy Terahertz Communications lab,
www.tcl.tu-bs.de

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Science & Technology

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• terahertz
• wireless
• signal
• video
• transmission
• wifi
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[shuu7777]

w00t futurama!

[genewitch]

I think the impressive part is that it's uncompressed video (and sound? couldn't tell from the video) data being transferred. not like an MPEG. The transmitter looked to be really low power, surprisingly (it was tiny!) So hopefully stuff way up in the Thz range will replace our crappy wireless G networks. :-)

[epit0me]

yeah i was just thinking "what happens if you break the line of sight?" then he commented on it, but it's still cool - gotta start somewhere, right?

[agungk]

yes, you may use metallic parabolic reflectors, but you can also use dielectric focusing lenses like the man demonstrated.

[agungk]

dielectric lenses (kind of plastic)

[Boeserwolf93]

using cable somehow contradicts the wish of transferring wirelessly

[ActiveStorage]

tesla ftw. i need some freee energy right fukin now

[FusionNinjin]

regardless this doesnt prove anything, heck i could stream fullscreen video over 1024x768 32bit coloring over my old wireless internal network, the only times that didnt work was when there was a wall in between, hes standing in the same room...