Monday, October 31, 2011

Bluetooth

One of the biggest hits in the bluetooth industry is bluetooth keyboards and mice. These are so popular because the allow users with bluetooth enabled devices to easily connect to a mouse and keyboard. These are popular at the moment due to the recent inovations with the ipad and other tablets. People are able to take their touch screen ipad and turn it into a virtual laptop by connecting via bluetooth to their keyboard. This enables the user to create documents, emails, and all text in a simpler and much more efficient way. They dont have to worry about pressing the wrong key due to the touch screen keyboard on the device itself, instead they can type just like they normally would be able to on any personal computer. Reading about these blutooth keyboards reminded me about how the book stated that input devices are able to enhance the performance the user has within the IT field and I believe that these bluetooth keyboards define that perfectly. When I looked at different bluetooth keyboard the HiPPih IEagle Foldable bluetooth keyboard was most interesting to me. Offered as an accessory to Ipad when you purchase it online, this keyboard allows users a full size keyboard which fits in your pocket. This keyboard would perfectly suite a business professional bringing their Ipad to a presentation because its not only convienient, it offers everything a standard keyboard does.
The second piece of bluetooth technology that I looked at was in the medical field. The product is the foldable bluetooth baby scale. I thought that this product was interesting because it allows the user to easily store data about their new born child. This product developed by Soehnle Professional allows the user to send data straight from the scale to a personal computer in a way to easily track the weight of a new born child. The scale wirelessly transmits the data from the scale and sends it to a personal device to keep help track the progress of your child. This will help improve your day to day life because it will help you stay organized ans keep information of your child electronically. This improvement to technology in the medical field reminded me about when we talked about outsourcing. Hospitals these days are even able to outsource their medical field by sending things such as x-rays, and MRI's overseas and having doctors asses them in places such as India. These new baby scales could be a new way of hospitals keeping in touch with its patients without having the patient to come in but instead send the weight and such through the web. This will not only increase productivity but will make the life of both parents and doctors much more simple.

1 comment:

Michael B. said...

I agree with you completely that one of the biggest hits in the Bluetooth industry is Bluetooth keyboards and mice. I agree with you about how they have become much more popular due to the fact that more and more people are now using them with their Ipads and Tablets. I like the part about how the Ipad had the keyboard that can fit in your pocket and I would agree that it would be a huge part of business because it can conveniently be brought and used at a presentation or a meeting. Your second product I found to be very interesting and cool and I enjoyed that part how it said it is easy to store data about a newborn child. I liked how they can send data from the device straight to their personal computer via Bluetooth technology. I agree with you that it would make life easier and would allow you to easily keep track of information and be organized because it would just be all stored on the device and then their personal computer.