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Snap up the Latest Bluetooth Headsets to Stay Connected on the Go

December 17, 2013 Leave a Comment

In today’s modern world, we are all more connected than ever before. Sometimes, it seems you can’t take more than a couple of steps without receiving a text, email or notification from social media – it can all be a bit much, to be honest! Sometimes, you really do need to stay connected on the go – perhaps you’re waiting for that all important call from work or need to organise an important appointment, yet you have a million other things to do too. You don’t have the time to sit around waiting for a call to come in; maybe you even have to travel to a business meeting so you won’t be able to answer calls on the go. That’s where the latest Bluetooth headsets come in handy![Read More]

Beam: The Smartphone-compatible Toothbrush

February 24, 2012 Leave a Comment

Beam Smartphone-compatible toothbrush

Say what? Yup, you read that right. There is now such a thing as a smartphone-compatible toothbrush. Off the top of my head, I cannot find any plausible reason for me to need, or even simply want, smartphone-compatible toothbrush. However, it really does exist, and it is called Beam.[Read More]

Bluetooth 4.0 Available This Year

July 9, 2010 Leave a Comment

Good news for enthusiasts of mobile devices – Bluetooth technology is stepping up! Before the year is over, we will be able to use mobile devices with Bluetooth 4.0. Version 4.0 was just recently approved by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. This means that the manufacturers of mobile devices will now have access to the necessary tools to use the technology in their products.

What are the advantages of Bluetooth 4.0 over the current version? Perhaps the biggest attraction of this technology is the fact that it uses considerably less power than the previous versions. The implications of the low power consumption are immense. For one, concerns about using electronic devices in sensitive areas due to potential interference can be forgotten. With the amount of power being used by the technology, it will not really be a problem. Batteries are also going to be much smaller – just like coin-cell batteries for little devices such as wristwatches and the like.

More than that, in spite of the low power consumption, 1 megabyte of data can be transferred at a time using Bluetooth 4.0. Of course, it also comes with the same capabilities of Bluetooth 3.0, such as sending as much as 25 megabytes of data via Wi-Fi 802.11.

In spite of the very recent approval of the technology, it will soon be available. It may not mean much to the average consumer at this point, but once manufacturers incorporate Bluetooth 4.0 into more devices, it should catch on.