Intel's solutions, along with Microsoft's Net Meeting , are best for users who need more than casual connections. Senator Ron Wyden is even offering grants for the more enterprising among us. Video coverage could combine multiple cameras. A simple switch pipes your choice of video feed to the video digitizer. Mobile cameras on wireless LANs Reporters or emergency workers could be linked for interactive videocasts.
Wireless hubs relay the show back to the home office or treatment center.
The technology has already arrived. For voice-only connections, Vocaltec's Internet Phone offers global voice communications. Cheaper, short-range consumer Wireless Personal Area Networks will be everywhere. Cable modems have already been adapted for two-way, 500Kbps wireless networking . In February, the FCC auctioned it off.