by Emily Benjamin
Many people now have the option to work from home. This is a convenient way to earn a living while being available for children, or to save money that would be spent on commuting. Companies also benefit from employing people to work from their homes. Less office space, heating costs, and office supplies can cost a company much less money per year. Having essential communication equipment to make the at-home workday a success, Bluetooth technologies has been invented. With innovative ways to hole teleconferences and stay in touch with those all over the world, Bluetooth has enabled everyone to perform their jobs comfortably and for less money. By offering wireless phones, PDA's, other communication equipment, as well as printers and computers, home offices are run more efficiently and effectively.
technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms, and the reordering of nature—the qualities of space and time—in new perceptual and material form. Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic. technology is the instrumental ordering of human experience within a logic of efficient means, and the direction of nature to use its powers for material gain. But art and technology are not separate realms walled off from each other. Art employs techne, but for its own ends. Techne, too, is a form of art that bridges culture and social structure, and in the process reshapes both.
—Daniel Bell (b. 1919)
Home offices aren't the only way to use Bluetooth technology in the home. Entertaining friends and family is a whole new experience. With wireless technology, television sets can be set up just about anywhere. This can make furnishing a home much easier. For watching movies and viewing pictures from one's latest trip, all a person has to do is download the materials from the computer and onto the television screen. Since seven different pieces of equipment can be used with Bluetooth technology. Radio and television frequencies are used instead of relying on cables. This makes using all equipment together much easier since individual pieces do not need to be hooked up at the same time to the same power source.
Listening to music is also made easier at home with Bluetooth technology. With a wireless headset, one can listen to whatever one wants and freely move around the house. The headset is connected to the stereo unit using the Bluetooth technology. The radio frequency is transmitted from stereo to headset. This can make cleaning the house a lot more fun. Also if two people are home, one can watch television while the other listens to the radio. The headset can also be used to listen to a favorite television show while someone else is sleeping or in another room. There are many possibilities with Bluetooth technology. The headsets can also be taken outside and used while mowing the lawn or gardening. This will make daily chores much more fun and enjoyable. It will also make them go by quickly. Bluetooth technology not only makes life more convenient, but also frees up time that should be spent relaxing or chatting with a loved one.
The discussion of the whole problem of technology ... has been strangely led astray through an all-too-exclusive concentration upon the service or disservice the machines render to men. The assumption here is that every tool and implement is primarily designed to make human life easier and human labor less painful.... But ... homo faber, the toolmaker, invented tools and equipment in order to erect a world, not ... to help the human life process. The question therefore is not so much whether we are the masters or the slaves of our machines, but whether machines still serve the world and its things, or if, on the contrary, they and the automatic motion of their processes have begun to rule and even destroy world and things.
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
Displaying photos on the television is easy when the house is set up on a network where all audio/visual equipment can work together. Download photos and home movies for viewing on a larger screen. Send pictures throughout the house onto different television sets. Having Bluetooth technology in the home can make the excitement of seeing family members and friends on a larger screen. The television in turn can be viewed on the computer if a person doesn't want to sit in the family room. Turing on a DVD player or VCR to record one's favorite show is easy. All a person has to do is use a wireless remote control and press a few buttons from anywhere in the house. It's that easy!
There are many other ways to enjoy Bluetooth technology. Explore the different ways life can become more convenient by setting up a network in the house today. From home offices to entertaining friends, the uses for this technology will become more sophisticated as the technology improves. Being able to use a remote control to turn off a television anywhere in the house will save money because the remote can be used to control all kinds of audio/visual equipment. There will no longer be a need to hide those unsightly wires from televisions, computers, and printers. This technology is wireless, which means no more trying to make the wires blend in with the carpeting. Bluetooth technology is available for phones, PDA's, computers, printers, televisions, and other audio/visual equipment. It is becoming popular in most households. Many businesses use this technology to keep in touch with their employees when they travel or to send important documents and other information to them very quickly. This technology is making everyone's life easier.