Cut the cord - Wireless USB

Abstract

The universal serial bus (USB) is a phenomenally successful connection standard. Although its arrival on PCs was not accompanied by working drivers, once the key operating systems had been updated, it rapidly replaced clunky D-type serial connectors and unwieldy parallel printer cables, and has now spread to almost everything you can connect to a computer, from digital cameras to novelty office rocket launchers. USB will add wireless and higher speed variants if standards makers can overcome some tricky issues.