SlashGear Japan
Sometimes you see a gadget and think “bloody hell, yes, that’s what I’ve been waiting for”, only to find that the price is, frankly, taking the piss. Such is this, the WID101 Wireless Monitor Adaptor. It takes the DVI signal from your PC or laptop, squishes it sufficiently to fit through an a, b or g wireless network, and streams it to a display at up to 1366×768 resolution (think 17″ display, max). Now that sounds, to me, great – I’d love a monitor in the kitchen that I could surf the net on and watch streaming video from a Media Center somewhere else in the house, but then we come to that age-old stumbling block: price.
The WID101 will cost you $995 which, in a day and age where you can pick up an entire Dell system for $479 that includes a 17″ monitor, makes it a niche product that I’m having trouble thinking of a market for.
2 Responses to “Wireless Monitor Adaptor – but who will buy it?”
M. Toler March 26, 2008
Yes it is an expensive peice of equiptment (Wireless monitor adaptor) and so was the wireless keyboard and mouse in the begining only the rich had such luxury as it will be with this inovative idea and I belive that it will one day (possibly) be offerd as standard equiptment on future computers. It may also be significatly reduced in size to be a simple usb adaptor on your pc to a small box with a antenna it could even be built into the motherboard look at the size of our hard drives a 500 gb hard drive in a lap top was unthinkable not so long ago and the future of the computer is no doubt booming I use a wireless keyboard and mouse and was wishing I had a wireless monitor set up and no I can’t afford one just yet but time will bring the cost of this innovative attachment down to where it is affordable WOW ! it’s a wonderful dream…
NeutralObvious Oglevy September 8, 2008
And ummmmmm where do I plug in this “wireless” monitor?
Neutral