The U.S. Army Research Lab
has awarded an engineering team at the University of Texas at Austin a
$909,000 grant to develop a model for a wireless Ultra Wideband (UWB)
device that could transmit libraries of information each second over
short distances.
"Imagine if you could beam entire contents of manuals or entire
hard drives worth of information over the air," said Theodore S.
Rappaport, director of the university's Wireless Network and
Communications Group (WNCG). "The idea is to make lighter-weight, much
more rugged and less expensive devices than laptops that allow for
transmitting massive amounts of content."
