Re: Pointless?
"What kind of magic software do you think could suddenly make your laptop magically communicate with a device that it isn't connected to by any wires?"
The kind of magic software that uses a laptops built in wireless?
Its virtually impossible to buy a laptop without wifi these days so if this works over normal wifi I can see the advantage of having say your ipod plugged in at your desk but you can still play music from it when sitting downstairs etc... or the same with printers.
If you already have built in wifi but this device only works with its own dongle as the pc side endpoint then yes its rather pointless for a laptop user as you still have to have something plugged in!