For the entire talk of convergence in mobile devices, there's relatively little chatter concerning the coming together of wireless signals themselves. In other words, why should we've got a separate device to engage with each sort of wireless signal? And so, with that intriguing question, begins the pitch for a brand new device call Phi. It is a $750 antennae-laden PCIe card that slots right into a desktop and gathers up wireless signals which are flying across the home -- as long as they have got a frequency below 4GHz and do not involve bank-busting neutrinos. The cardboard then allows custom apps to re-direct those transmissions as you favor: potentially acting as a "base station" so that you could make free calls out of your mobile phone, or receiving over-the-air HD transmissions that you may play to your tablet, or doing whatever else hobbyists and devs can cook up. Phi continues to be version 0.1 and Linux-only while the startup behind it -- Per Vices -- looks for a Kinect-style blossoming of third-party interest, but with nothing lower than a deity-like command over the domestic ether on offer, how could it ever fail?
From WhatNewsToday.net
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