Signature Q1 2009 - (Page 31) GET IN THE GAME Jorge J. Ibanez of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is perhaps not the typical visitor to Bluetooth.com or reader of SIGnature magazine. Instead, he’s a 66year-old retired New York State Trooper and long-time inventor and tinkerer. While in college, for example, he thought an FM modulator would solve the problem of people leaving drive-in movie theaters with the speaker still attached to their car windows. At the time, though, car FM was still a luxury novelty. “Who knew that in a few years FM would be all the craze and would be in all the cars?” Ibanez says. Now, Ibanez plans to share one of his ideas instead of keeping it under wraps. “I have all my life invented stuff and never written it down. This is the first time I’ve ever taken it to somebody,” says Ibanez, who went to Bluetooth.com looking for a way to put his Bluetooth technology idea to the test. That’s where he saw SIGnature magazine’s “Get in the Game” contest. Ibanez thinks our public spaces could be a bit more civil. And he thinks Bluetooth technology can help. He suggests installing Bluetooth enabled TVs in public venues, perhaps with docking stations that allow viewers to synchronize Bluetooth wireless headsets to a particular television when, as in a bar, more than one TV is operating. This would solve two problems: the inability to hear the television you want to hear and, conversely, annoying din from mulitiple televisions broadcasting diverse programming. Ibanez believes his idea would be useful in outdoor eateries, airport concourses, doctors’ offices, gyms and similar public spaces. For his winning entry, Ibanez will receive the Sound ID prize package of, fittingly, four headsets, from Visit Bluetooth.com to read SIGnature magazine’s July 2008 what our finalists suggested Get in the Game contest. should be Bluetooth enabled. Now Hear This Jorge Ibanez may be retired from highway patrol duties, but his idea for Bluetooth enabled civility is just the ticket. Calling all wannabe inventors: Share your best ideas in our ‘Dream, Enter, Win’ contest. Dream Bluetooth enabled ideas come in all shapes and sizes, from baby monitors and paintball games to wireless game networks and controllers that fit like a glove. Can you dream big? Enter Let your imagination run wild, and share your best ideas with us! Send your game entry to signature@bluetooth. com by 6 March, and you’ll be entered for a chance to win one of 10 prizes! This issue’s sponsor, Newton Peripherals, will award 10 lucky winners a MoGo Presenter Mouse PC, valued at US$99.99. It functions as both a wireless optical mouse (with a fingernail-size Bluetooth wireless adapter for your computer’s USB port) and a device to control PowerPoint presentations with 30 feet of freedom. The MoGo stores and charges inside your laptop’s PCMCIA slot, too. Win http://www.bluetooth.com
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