The Insomniac Coder

My new monitor is a real monitor instead of an  HDTV  (amazing how a 24" HD screen without analog inputs or ATSC tuner is so much cheaper than a 23" HDTV of the same product series), so I just got a Logitech S220 2.1 Speaker System with Subwoofer , an impulse buy and at $23 I didn't think much of it. I didn't even finish reading the product page. The system arrived today, and it came with this little doodad: This little pod is a combination of: Power switch Headphone jack extension Microphone jack extension Volume knob I have been using it for maybe an hour, and I can't understand why every PC doesn't come with a pod like this.The two speakers sound like two tiny speakers, no surprise there. The sub-woofer actually sounds pretty cool, even better considering the whole thing cost $23 including free shipping. 

OK, this is both useless and desperate. Why are we still putting up with this cabling nonsense? Why not develop a secure means of replacing USB with a wireless technology , even if it is even shorter range than Bluetooth ? We don't need a new cable that goes 3GB/s because even if we had a device that could use such a connection, or computers can't sustain such a channel for long periods of time.  Instead we should be able to take a hard disk , pair it with our PC wirelessly , and then it would work at whatever speed, but only as long as the drive was within 3 feet from the PC. If we do this right, our PC will have one wire coming out of it, the power cord. Control devices should use a slower channel like Bluetooth or 802.11b/g/n, and all data channels should go over this high speed wireless channel. Even the Internet connection! We have had routers with push-button device pairings for a while, I don't see why we can't have it also work over this theoretical ch...