With the preponderance of USB devices available today - and I mean the serious ones, with wired connections, not dogs that hump your USB ports - it was only a matter of time before engineers developed wireless USB plugs, giving you all of the speed and compatibility of a USB transfer with none of the wires. Technically, that time is already over - remember the Y-E Data UWB USB hub? - but now we've got certification: NEC Electronics announced yesterday that their uPD720170 Wireless USB host controller for PCI interfaces and uPD720180 Wireless USB device wire adapter are among the first wireless USB products to be certified by the USB Implementers Forum, Inc., of which NEC is a core member. The certification states that wireless USB will have a transfer rate of 480 MBPs (the same as wired USB) at 3 meters and 130 MBPs at 10 meters, the maximum distance allowed by the specification.

Via TCG