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"Panasonic demonstrates new WiGig wireless SD cards"
by Lee Kaelin, TechSpot, 1 February 2012: "...The SD memory card features an embedded WiGig chip and antenna, which can be used to transmit videos between small electronic devices like tablets and phones to in-car TVs, or the TV in your living room... The technology is still a little way off from being made available to the public, but Panasonic says it could transfer a DVD sized video in less than a minute using the 60Ghz spectrum, with the distance between the two devices limited to around one to three meters..."
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"Visible-light communication: A fast and cheap optical version of Wi-Fi is coming"
The Economist, 28 January 2012: "Among the many new gadgets unveiled at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was a pair of smartphones able to exchange data using light. These phones, as yet only prototypes from Casio, a Japanese firm, transmit digital signals by varying the intensity of the light given off from their screens. The flickering is so slight that it is imperceptible to the human eye, but the camera on another phone can detect it at a distance of up to ten metres. In an age of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, flashing lights might seem like going back to sending messages with an Aldis lamp. In fact, they are the beginning of a fast and cheap wireless-communication system that some have labelled Li-Fi..."
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Benefit for the Dale Hatfield Professorship at the University of Colorado: 27 March in Washington, DC
by Michael Marcus, SpectrumTalk blog, 27 January 2012: "The Dale N. Hatfield Professorship at the University of Colorado Law School has been made possible by Dale's very generous contribution to secure a professorship there that will work in partnership with the Silicon Flatirons Center and the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program. Silicon Flatirons will host events in Washington, DC and Boulder, Colorado, to honor Dale's commitment to these important areas of study..."
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"Notion in Motion: Wireless sensors monitor brain waves on the fly"
by Amber Dance, Scientific American, 27 January 2012: "...By reading signals from several electrodes, they can infer where, within the skull, a particular impulse originated. This is akin to listening to a single speaker's voice in a crowded room. In so doing, they are also able to filter out movements - not just eyebrow twitches, but also the muscle flexing needed to walk, talk or fly a plane. EEG's most public face may be two Star Wars-inspired toys, Mattel's Mindflex and Uncle Milton's Force Trainer. Introduced in 2009, they let wannabe Jedi knights practice telekinesis while wearing an EEG headset. But these toys are just the 'tip of the iceberg,' says Makeig, whose work includes mental concentration monitoring..."
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"Why WRC12 could be the most important conference for mobile industry this year"
Mobile Europe, 26 January 2012: "...The mobile operators are represented, in part, at the WRC by their industry body, the GSMA. Roberto Ercole, Senior Director, Spectrum at the GSMA, told Mobile Europe that the GSMA's principal aim this time around is to have an agenda item adopted for WRC2015 that will allocate additional frequency for mobile broadband services, thereby laying out which frequencies will be available from 2020 and beyond. The mobile industry is concerned that although WRC2007 laid out frequency bands for mobile services in digital dividend spectrum at 800MHz, and also at 2.5GHz, that will not be enough to support the remarkable growth in mobile data services the industry has seen since 2007..."
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