Faster Wi-Fi in Works to Transfer Data

September 2nd, 2007 By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- With a wave of his hand over a homemade receiver, Georgia Tech professor Joy Laskar shows how easily - and quickly - large data files could someday be transferred from a portable media player to a TV. Poof! "You just moved a movie onto your device," Laskar says.

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