Product Description
Internet-connected refrigerators, electronic pens that record and send your written message to your PC, wearable computers-all are examples of the latest technology gadgets designed to improve our lives. There are also appliances we're more familiar with-the home stereo, PC with email, and VCRs-whose usability could be improved exponentially, when networked to other appliances. Each chapter of Easy Living in the Digitally Connected Home presents a new piece of hardware or software, explains a networking concept needed to use and network the home appliance featured, and includes a separate section entitled "I Bet You Didn't Know" that highlights new uses for common applications, the Web or other appliances.
Synopsis
Each chapter presents a new piece of hardware or software, explains how to use it and shows how it relates to the overall home network. Includes appliances such as: Internet Boom Boxes/Hardware, Internet Picture frames, hand held and wearable computers, Web tablets, Auto PC, Portable hand held copiers, E-mail appliances, WebTV, The Anoto Pen, The Margherita 2000 Internet washing machine, Internet refrigerators, iPhone, Home Entertainment Gateways which incorporate DVD, video, TV and Internet multimedia into one appliance, and home stereo networking for downloading/transferring music. Each chapter explains a networking concept needed to use and network the home appliance featured, and includes a separate section entitled "I Bet You Didn't Know" that highlights new uses for common applications, the Web or other appliances.
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