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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: In the hands of Apple.
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I was just wondering what ya'll thought about that. I think it would be cool.. generally speaking I would use for video home security. Plus I think it would be cool when I have kids, That I can hook up the iSight in the nursery and project it on an iMac near the bed. That would be pimp. Or like I said earlier do a multi-cam home servalence to my iMac near the bed. and be able to switch to my PowerMac in my office.
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Cut the wire. Then you've got a wireless iSight.
Then, close your eyes and imagine that it works, and that's as real as it actually working, because everything is in our mind anyway. blah. No, actually that would be pretty cool. I agree with you. But I don't know anythin about whehter it's gonna happen or not. |
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Apple has a wireless iSight for $650 Mac mini + FireWire iSight.
I don't think they'll make the iSight wireless. It would draw a lot of power, require a steady high-bandwidth connection (802.11b probably wouldn't be good enough; g could work but would be rather unstable, etc.), and generally would only appeal to a small target audience. |
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maybe a bluetooth isight. But would bluetooth be fast enough? also, you would need some type of battery, that would increase the size.
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Bluetooth would provide nowhere near the necessary bandwidth.
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802.11g would work fine for a 320x240 or maybe 640x480 video stream, as long as the camera had built-in MPEG-4 compression... although it would probably make web surfing on the same router somewhat laggy...
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So, with a compression chip, a wireless chip, a battery, etc., it would certainly not be smaller. Quote:
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well, bluetooth 2.0 is fairly fast. |
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No, it's not. At EDR, it offers 3 MBit/s, gross. That's maybe 2 MBit/s net at best, probably much less. A decent-quality video codec at the iSight resolution would take up between 500 kbit/s and 1 MBit/s, at the very, very least, and with all the necessary overhead, you're quickly gonna exhaust the connection. In short, it's not gonna work. Now, 802.11b offers 11 MBit/s, but in practice, that easily goes down to 4 MBit/s or less, so you have the same problem. 802.11g? 54 MBit/s, theoretically, and when you're lucky, you can get about 20 MBit/s out of it. Much more feasible. I'm still not sold, though. |
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How about a MB-OFDM version of UWB combined with Bluetooth?
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I'm thinking wireless USB might do the trick.
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Making sawdust
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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whatever happened to wireless firewire?
had to have been almost 5 years ago i heard everyone raving about it. |
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Ninja Editor
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Bay Area, CA
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How about using the wireless systems that are already in place and are working now and available now?
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Making sawdust
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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because current wireless systems are no where near as fast as their wired counterparts
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Charlotte, NC
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Why does everything have to be wireless? Wireless iPod, wireless iSight, wireless this, wireless that. What's the point? It's useful for many things, but not everything is cooler and better just because it has no wires.
And what's the point, especially for surveillance cameras, if you then have to replace the battery once (or more times) a day or have to run a power cable to it, anyway? Wireless doesn't magically solve the power problem. |
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I want a wireless ghoti.
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Paris, France
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While a wireless security camera is dubiously useful (though power sockets are easy to find anywhere), I think wireless solutions in general are a good thing for consumer electronics. Cable management is a real problem these days. Look at your average desktop computer with scanner, printer and other peripherals. An unsightly mess. The typical geek's desk and floor haven't been cleaned for months because he can't be bothered moving a hundred cables.
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