Signature Q1 2009 - (Page 7) Great Moments in Wireless History Nikola Tesla Was Electrifying Bluetooth (or any) wireless Coming Events See and Be Seen UnPlugFest 32 What’s the WORD? What do you think is a significant new use case for Bluetooth technology? technology would not exist without Nikola Tesla. Neither would the modern world as we know it. Use electricity? Thank Tesla. Run anything with an electric motor in it? Tesla. Listen to the radio? Use a remote control? Work with robotics, reciprocating engines or particlebeam weapons? Tesla, Tesla, Tesla. There is, in fact, almost nothing involving electromagnetic devices, both wired and wireless, that Tesla did not invent or make practical, even though others are often credited with Tesla’s work. Born in Croatia in 1856, Tesla – who invented radio before Guillermo Marconi and whose alternating-current power generator at Niagara Falls triumphed over Thomas Edison’s direct current – was eccentric and reclusive, eventually dying in poverty. Today, he’s little known outside of museums and popular-science centers, where one of his inventions, the Tesla coil, is relegated to the role of hair-raising sideshow. That in itself is ironic; the coil was one of Tesla’s few ultimate failures. 2-6 February 2009 The Fairmont San Francisco Hotel San Francisco, California USA Bluetooth SIG AHM 21-23 April 2009 Hilton Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Events listed above are subject to change. For the most current listings, see the calendar at bluetooth.org/events. Bluesightings Where Will You See Blue? On the Screen The Hong Kong TV drama Moonlight Resonance shows characters using Sony Ericsson Bluetooth enabled headsets while driving, and Dr. Ronald Chevalier, a character in the Fox movie Gentlemen Broncos, wears a Motorola headset at all times. On the Web A fledgling blog by “Electric Monk” focuses solely on the types of people who use Bluetooth technology, saying, “somewhere along the line Bluetooth headsets were kidnapped by people who think they’re WAY cooler than they actually are.” “I still think the next killer app is going to be the printing. You see people going around with their cell phones taking pictures, but they use their phone as a little photo album of their family. They don’t particularly know what to do with these pictures they’ve taken, and so the printing profile will be great, to just send it straight to the printer without having to download it to a folder and use all their software. Hopefully easy pairing will make it that much easier for them to discover and use the printer.” Michael Nidd, Research Staff Member, IBM Corporation, Zurich, Switzerland “With Bluetooth low energy technology, I can see it in the fitness area for all the people who enjoy the wireless connections in their shoes and things like that. And then with Bluetooth high speed technology, it’s the home area network, where you’re trying to get high speed synchronization and everything else moving. For example, I have a digital camera, and I want to get the information off that and onto my PC or onto my HD. And it’s there, I think, with the next step. That’s obviously what the high throughput is going to give us.” Gillian Ewers, Vice President, UWB Marketing, CSR, Cambridge, U.K. Bluetooth Technology by the Numbers | Where Will It Be in the Year 2013? Source: The Worldwide Market for Bluetooth Technology 2008 Edition, by IMS Research 166M 79% 229M 18.3% * Projected number of Bluetooth enabled gaming devices in use Bluetooth * Projected attach rate ofhandsets technology in cellular Projected number of * enabled notebook PCsBluetooth in use * Projected annual growth rate of the Bluetooth wireless market, 2008-2013 Bluetooth Special Interest Group | 7 http://www.bluetooth.org/events
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