There’s a Bluetooth in your future. No, this isn’t the kind of blue tooth that requires expensive
dental whitening. This Bluetooth is a technology that promises to eliminate most of the cables
that connect your various personal computing devices—and to create new types of smart
wireless communications.
This book is your guide to Bluetooth, a consumer-level overview of the technology and its
possible applications. Throughout the rest of this book you’ll learn all sorts of details about
Bluetooth—what it is, what it does, how it does it, and how you’ll use it. Before we get to
those details, however, this chapter provides you with a general overview of the Bluetooth
technology. So even if you’ve never heard of Bluetooth before, you’ll find out what all the
fuss is about—and discover how and why you’ll soon be using Bluetooth technology in your
daily life.