Why a Bluetooth is called a Bluetooth?
(Published on 26 June 2007 in 'Women at Work' - W @ W - a supplement of the Daily Mirror, Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Gone are the days when the only blue tooth people knew of was the half broken one decaying in the depths of someone’s mouth. Well Bluetooth isn't some strange form of tooth decay. Bluetooth is the name of a new technology.
Take a look around you. Whether you are at home or at office – your electronic equipment will be wired to one another by cables. Cables can become quite a bother. Bluetooth technology is an answer to this. It provides a ‘cable free’ environment.
Bluetooth wireless technology is a short-range communications technology intended to replace the cables connecting portable and fixed devices.
Bluetooth provides a way to connect and exchange information between devices such as mobile phones, computers, laptops, printers and digital cameras over a secure, globally unlicensed short-range radio frequency. It is actually just a small, radio chip that is plugged into electronic gadgets. It takes the information normally carried by the cable, and transmits it at a special frequency to a receiver Bluetooth chip present in the gadget where the information is to be received.
A master Bluetooth device can communicate with up to seven devices. This network group of up to eight devices is called a piconet. Piconet is a combination of the prefix ‘pico’ meaning very small or one trillionth and network. A piconet allows one master device to interconnect with up to seven active devices. Either device can switch roles and become the master at any time.
Having understood what Bluetooth was all about it seemed strange that this novel technology should be given such an outlandish name. What is interesting is that the Bluetooth was named after a late tenth century king, Harald Bluetooth who was the King of Denmark and Norway.
Harald Bluetooth is known for unifying warring tribes from Denmark, Norway and some parts of present-day Sweden, where the Bluetooth technology was invented. As the Bluetooth technology unifies different technologies, such as computers and mobile phones, it was thought appropriate to name it after the famous king. Choosing this name indicates how important the Nordic region is to the communications industry.
Harald Bluetooth built a large monument, the Jelling rune stone. The Bluetooth logo merges the Nordic runes similar to the modern Latin H and B (haglaz) and (berkanan) forming a bind rune.
Now why Harald Bluetooth was called Bluetooth remains a mystery. Maybe he did have a decaying blue tooth after all. That reminds me… I am off to the dentist sweethearts. Until next week… ciao.
Miss Know-All
miss.know.all@gmail.com
Take a look around you. Whether you are at home or at office – your electronic equipment will be wired to one another by cables. Cables can become quite a bother. Bluetooth technology is an answer to this. It provides a ‘cable free’ environment.
Bluetooth wireless technology is a short-range communications technology intended to replace the cables connecting portable and fixed devices.
Bluetooth provides a way to connect and exchange information between devices such as mobile phones, computers, laptops, printers and digital cameras over a secure, globally unlicensed short-range radio frequency. It is actually just a small, radio chip that is plugged into electronic gadgets. It takes the information normally carried by the cable, and transmits it at a special frequency to a receiver Bluetooth chip present in the gadget where the information is to be received.
A master Bluetooth device can communicate with up to seven devices. This network group of up to eight devices is called a piconet. Piconet is a combination of the prefix ‘pico’ meaning very small or one trillionth and network. A piconet allows one master device to interconnect with up to seven active devices. Either device can switch roles and become the master at any time.
Having understood what Bluetooth was all about it seemed strange that this novel technology should be given such an outlandish name. What is interesting is that the Bluetooth was named after a late tenth century king, Harald Bluetooth who was the King of Denmark and Norway.
Harald Bluetooth is known for unifying warring tribes from Denmark, Norway and some parts of present-day Sweden, where the Bluetooth technology was invented. As the Bluetooth technology unifies different technologies, such as computers and mobile phones, it was thought appropriate to name it after the famous king. Choosing this name indicates how important the Nordic region is to the communications industry.
Harald Bluetooth built a large monument, the Jelling rune stone. The Bluetooth logo merges the Nordic runes similar to the modern Latin H and B (haglaz) and (berkanan) forming a bind rune.
Now why Harald Bluetooth was called Bluetooth remains a mystery. Maybe he did have a decaying blue tooth after all. That reminds me… I am off to the dentist sweethearts. Until next week… ciao.
Miss Know-All
miss.know.all@gmail.com
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