Wireless USB has been along since CES 2007, but it took a while to see the first products. Belkin announced last year a wireless USB hub that eventually got shipped this summer and now it’s IOGEAR’s turn to announce their VGA extenders priced at a hefty 229.95USD which is really an awful lot.
I guess all this CE industry is being so pressured at showing innovative products that they tend to forget that making industrial wireless devices is not always so easy and that emerging new chipsets need time to mature and enter industrialization phase.
The IOGEAR’s looks nice although I can only regret that it’s not a VGA dongle on the PC side – using the USB port to connects to the PC limits its used to supported Windows machines. My guess is they had to do this to enable pc-based pre-treatment of the images to lower the required bandwidth needs…

Source Engadget