Transferring large amounts of data at high speed just by holding devices close together TransferJet Close Proximity Wireless Transfer Technology Developed
Sony has developed TransferJet,
a close proximity wireless transfer technology,
that can transfer large files such as photographs
and videos from mobile devices such as cellular
phones and digital cameras to PCs or TVs
simply by holding the devices close together.
Sony announced this technology
at CES International, held in the US
in January this year,
and it attracted interest from a variety of media,
both domestic Japanese and international.
This article presents Sony's unique TransferJet
close proximity wireless transfer technology
and a discussion between two of the developers.
Possible TransferJet Devices and Usages
TransferJet Specifications
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TransferJet is a wireless technology that allows
a pair of devices that want to communicate to
do so simply by bringing them close together.
While the communication distance is only up
to a short 3 cm, it achieves ultrahigh-speed
transfers with an effective data transfer rate of
375 Mbits/s. TransferJet needs none of the
complex connection settings or access points
required by current wireless systems. Thus
we expect TransferJet to be able to be widely
used as a universal interface between a wide
variety of equipment types. For example, a
digital camera image could be displayed on a
TV screen just by holding the camera close to
the TV, or audio files could be transferred
just by holding a cellular phone close to a
portable audio terminal.
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