Wireless USB poised to cut the cable

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So, how does it deal with power?

I am assuming that this technology now takes batteries - so instead of having free cables on our desks, we have to spend $5 to $10 /per year per device on Batteries - the average business Desktop has at least 2 devices (Mouse/keyboard) and we'll add one more for luck (printer/organizer). That gives us three devices at about $7.50 /year each, that's $22.50 (I'll round down to $20) for a company with 50 PCs, that $1000 / year for the priviledge of not using cables.

Think about companies with 1000 pc's - that cost jumps to $20,000 - almost a whole employee.

Unless they can find a way to make it battery free, or reduce battery usage (to at most $5 per desktop per year), adoption will be slow ...


There's nothing worse than working on a big project and having your keyboard run out of batte

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