Give Me A Life Without Wires

I met Dr. Norman Lewis, ex Orange, and now Chief Strategy Officer of Wireless Grids.

This is a company that is onto something. No wires. Basically, any device will connect to any network, any other device and just work.

Mic on your PC. Recording software on your Mac. Freestanding Sony video cam. You have all you need to record a video, even though none are hard wired together. Want to watch the recorded video on your TV. No problem. Oh, and the audio can be played back through your 5.1 surround sound system. And all this without wires.

In a nutshell Wireless Grids is about personal area networks, but to the extreme end of the scale. They don't necessarily want to do away with what you already have in place and give you yet another "new" technology. Instead they want to let you get more out of what you already have in place, thus driving down the total cost of ownership, not increasing it.

The implications for VoIP, Video and Data devices are also immense. The ability to use what you already have helps to grow adoption, not exclude it. That is simply brilliant. Given the pedigree of who they have behind the company, there's lots of smarts here.

Keep this as one company to watch.