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Belkin’s Cable Free USB Hub

January 21st, 2006

Have you ever wished you could connect to your external USB hard drive, your printer or scanner or even your iPod wirelessly? Then you’ll be glad to hear that Belkin has come up with a cable free wireless USB hub.

The hub has four ports and works on UWB (Ultra-wideband) technology which allows for fast data transfer rates - up to 100 times faster than bluetooth. At such speeds, you will even be able to stream movies wirelessly in real time from a hard drive connected to the cable free hub.

However, unless UWB (Ultra-wideband) receivers come built in with future laptops, you will need a UWB dongle plugged into your laptop to connect to the cable free hub.

The hub (including the receiver dongle) will be available from early spring this year (at least in the US) and is expected to retail for $129.99.

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