Local Best Buy stores were where many people first saw a laptop wirelessly beam 720p HD video to a big screen TV. Dell, Sony and Toshiba were the first to sell WiDi-ready laptops, and they came bundled with a Netgear wireless adapter that connected to the TV. Intel built the wireless HD media streaming technology into some of its laptop chipsets being coupled with first-generation Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors and sold exclusively at Best Buy. That’s what happened when WiDi first hit the market in 2010. “We wanted people to experience something they’ve never done before.” “We wanted to impact technologies coming in the next two years,” said Forell, who was recruited by an Intel Sales and Marketing rotation program 11 years ago after earning his electronics engineering degree from the University of Washington. “We wanted to create things that we had never done before,” said Kerry Forell, who was then in Intel’s Mobile Platforms Group collaborating with researchers and engineers inside Intel Labs, Software and Services and other parts of the company. It was 2006 when a team of Intel engineers began working on what would later be dubbed Wireless Display, or WiDi, technology, which allows people to wirelessly stream video and photos directly from their WiDi-equipped computer to a big screen TV with the use of a small companion adaptor. WiDi Product Manager Kerry Forell (second row from front in black sweater) and Intel VP of PC Client Group Mooly Eden with the team behind the making of Wireless Display technology when it launched in 2010. The tough part was making it all happen without adding hardware or extra cost to the manufacturing and selling of laptops. It wasn’t incredibly difficult convincing computer industry executives and engineers at such companies as Dell, Sony and Toshiba that people would soon want to beam movies, videos and photos from their laptop screens on to a big screen digital TV.

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