News Japanese T-ray tech boasts 3Gb/s wireless speeds

Japanese researchers have successfully transmitted wireless data at 3Gb/s using 'T-ray' technology.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2012/05/17/t-ray-technology/1

 

I predict a Resonance Cascade with those high frequencies!

 

Gordon's ALIVE!

 

Now we just need storage with the ability to read/write at similar speeds.

 

Close, but not close enough methinks.

 

One major problem I foresee: bad science.

If wireless is bad for us (my acupuncturist homoeopath told me it was, so it must be true) and that works in the GHz range - so surely something that works in the THz range must be a thousand times worse for us?

How long before the luddites suggest something like that?

On a more serious note, any wireless system that is capable of working through my 2 foot thick walls would be very welcome by me. It's a shame that we're probably at least 5 years away before a viable commercial version is available...

 

The problem with getting workable solutions at this frequency is that it gets much harder to have a reasonable output power, which means short range. One of the other main problems is tuning which involves tailor made parts and lots of testing/retuning to get right (although that's going on my experience of top end R&D equipment so it may be that they've cracked it for lower/consumer parts).

 

At 1THz and up, your DNA starts to cracking down. No, I'm not kidding at all!

 

that's really high freq.. I'd like to see the antennae that delivers- sounds like a gimmick if it has no range

 

oh well threw some numbers into a modeler.. you could theoretically get 4x the distance using a small 3 element yagi =] but the f/b ratio is horrible not to mention the pattern, needs a lot of tweaking.. least the numbers put it in the ballpark though

why not just run a cable

 

Why are they calling this range T-ray, when it already has a name (Far-infrared)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation#Electromagnetic_spectrum