Gadgets are a great way to get the blood pumping for a lot of us out there - and I am one of the first to admit it - and it takes a lot. The thought of using my laptop display 30 feet across the room from my plasma without wires really got my blood pumping as I sought to test out the AItech International ProPC/TV Wireless.

This baby is pretty cool, with two little boxes and convenient cables with well-thought out design beyond what would be necessary made this puppy seem like I was going to be relishing in gadget bliss. But maybe I spoke too soon.

Setup is easy as pie - and one of the best features is that it does not require software. Good thought went into the design of their VGA connection. Instead of just offering a standard VGA cable end to connect to - they realized you may be using the monitor you wish to wirelessly transmit - so they developed a great “T” shaped VGA pass-through cable which not only steals the signal, but passes it along for the next device, if any, attached to the opposing connector. AITech realized that you may not be connecting a device and even provides a VGA termination slug.

Connect the VGA cable, plug in audio, three cables in the TV - and I power them on. At first, I didn’t get anything but static - so realizing it was on the 2.4MHz frequency, I shut off the wireless on my notebook and changed the channel on both devices to Channel 4. Well, now I’ve got some picture, but it’s pretty grainy, smeared and unclear - plus there is a popping noise and bars that keep going through the screen. Not good.

Power down both of the devices and try Channel 3. Nothing better so I give up. Then, I took my photographs for this post, then realizing I didn’t use the VGA terminator - I figured that may have been causing the image problem. So, with refound faith it was ‘my’ fault - I put on the VGA termination device and powered ‘em up.

Same thing. AITech - first of all, wouldn’t you expect a device to be used primarily with notebooks by design, to also be using WiFi? It’s on the same frequency range. Why? If this baby worked - I’d have been quite happy, now I’m on the search for a device which does the same thing - without wires. I have a Dlink product that may be able to fill the role, I’ll have to check it out. So check back for the update!