USB? Meh. Too slow. Plus you need a cable to transfer large files between devices. Ethernet or Wi-Fi suffer from similar issues of either being slow and spotty or requiring cables. There’s also the sneaker method of transferring large files — if you happen to have a USB stick or portable drive lying around.
But a new technology called Kiss Connectivity developed by may be the answer for mobile devices everywhere. Kiss relies on EHF waves, or Extremely High Frequencies, to transfer data. Devices have to be very close together, kind of like Near Field Communication technology. Kiss touts transfer speeds of up to 6 Gigabits per second (USB 3.0 is around 5 Gbps).
Marie van Tatenhove, Keyssa’s vice president of marketing shows how small the Kiss Connectivity solid-state chip is.
Marie von Tatenhove, Keyssa’s vice president of marketing, demoed Kiss by transferring a 1.8 GB movie to a laptop in about 6 seconds. In the video, you can see a special pad on the laptop that has the tiny Kiss solid-state chip. Her phone also has a Kiss case. As soon as the technologies touch, the phone’s storage pops up onscreen and she moves the movie to the desktop.
It’s fast but probably more attractive is the convenience. Imagine just setting your phone on top of a TV to immediately view large videos from your phone — without any buffering.
Marie van Tatenhove demonstrates how transferring a 1.8 GB movie from her phone to the computer takes 6 seconds. Speeds top around 328 MBps, or 1.8 to 2.6 gbps.
Keyssa expects the first Kiss products in the consumer market in the second half of 2015.
For anyone keeping track, improved speeds for transfer technologies are on their way:
- — Offers up to 10 Gbps. Still needs a cord. But a HUGE benefit is that is also sends up to 100 watts of power through the same cable, which means power and transfer. Products should start launching this year. Ars Technica offers a helpful article ““
- — Another close-proximity transfer (ie: wireless) that is currently at 560 Mbps. The is working on a 10 Gbps process, which is currently in draft mode. TransferJet technology is backed by Toshiba, Olympus and Sony.
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— , Thunderbolt (now in version 2) offers transfer rates of up to 20 Gbps. Thunderbolt 3, with speeds topping out at 40 Gbps, is expected later this year or next year. Requires a cable.
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