Toshiba Electronics Europe has made an announcement that it will launch a SDIO module, a microSDIO card and a USB adaptor module to enable the rapid adoption of TransferJet. SDIO being the technology used to make communication devices that fits in a SD card slot.

The Japanese company also said that the first SDIO module will ship by the end of the year with microSDIO card and the USB adaptor module set to be released in the first quarter of 2013.

45 companies form part of the TransferJet consortium all of them Japanese companies with household names (Sony, Hitachi, JVC, Nikon, Olympic, Epson, Panasonic, Pioneer and Toshiba).

The technology, which competes against Bluetooth, NFC, Wireless USB and WiGig, combines low power consumption with transfer rates of up to 560mbps (in line of sight). As with NFC, a simple touch between two devices will trigger the transfer.

Sony announced a new component back in February, one capable of transferring up to 350Mbps, and shipped a TransferJet station, the TJS-1, back in 2010, a device which unfortunately is no longer available.