“He could hear voices in his head!
The thoughts of going insane filled him with dread!
The medic then examined his hat!
There was a small speaker underneath that!”
This is a tech which is an integral part of our tech armamentarium but did you know that this was invented way back in the 1990s but came into the market only in the 2000s!?
read on!
The Bluetooth technology covers everything from audio for wireless headphones and speakers, pairing gaming controllers and keyboards, tethering internet connections, and even occasionally transferring files over the air. Even to the extent that it can be used for remote controlling!
Like everything else, Apple always tries to do things different and by default even the first iPhones and subsequent ones do not use Bluetooth tech for file transfer! They introduced their wifi transfer which was better and faster and later taken up by others!
But still Bluetooth is a valuable tool and much energy efficient since the power consumed and the tech required is much basic!
The Bluetooth standard was originally conceived by Dr. Jaap Haartsen at Ericsson back in 1994. Everyone knows the story how it was named for a renowned Viking and king who united Denmark and Norway in the 10th century!
At the time, it was designed to replace RS-232 telecommunication cables, a much older standard conceived in 1960, by using short-range UHF radio waves between 2.4 and 2.485 GHz.
In 1998 the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) was formed, which to this day publishes and promotes the standard and its subsequent revisions. Bluetooth SIG initially only included Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia, and Toshiba, but reached 4,000 members by the end of its first year. Shortly after the inception of the Bluetooth SIG, devices began making their way to markets. The group now contains over 30,000 member companies at various levels of influence!
The first consumer Bluetooth launched in 1999. It was a hands-free mobile headset that earned the technology the “Best of Show Technology Award” at COMDEX. The Bluetooth 1.0 specification also officially launched that year, leading to the release of the first Bluetooth-equipped chipsets, dongles, mice, wireless PC cards, and mobile phones in 2000!
The latest Bluetooth version, the Bluetooth 5 offers the flexibility to make IoT solutions better because of 2x speed, 4x range 8x data capacity. It offers better IoT connection as the range increased up to 4 times. So not only home but whole building, industry, factory, office surrounding would be possible to connect properly. In case you are wondering what is IoT; well the term IoT, or Internet of Things, refers to the collective network of connected devices and the technology that facilitates communication between devices and the cloud, as well as between the devices themselves!
Bluetooth was originally conceived with wireless voice calls in mind but not high-quality music streaming which is its primary use now! Bluetooth now has had competition from Infrared tech which soon became outdated and slow, NFC, WIFI and others! But still, even after more than 30 years of its first invention, it continues to be the first choice in audio! Reminds me of the day’s celebrity who was also the best choice for good roles Mangal Singh Dhillon!
Now turn off all bluetooth devices and sleep!
Shubh Ratri!
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