Wireless Home Networking - Index of

In This Chapter
Chapter 19
More Than Ten Devices to
Connect to Your Wireless
Network in the Future
� Singing in the shower (and hot tub) with wireless tunes
� Looking under the hood (without lifting the hood)
� Connecting your home appliances
� Getting musical with Wi-Fi
� Tracking Junior and Fido
� Adding a wireless robot to your network
� Wearing wirelessly connected apparel
We tell you throughout this book to think about the big picture —
to think about more than just networking your home computers. In
Chapter 10, we talk about adding various peripheral devices (such as a
printer) to your home network. In Chapters 11 and 12, we talk extensively
about all the gaming gear and audiovisual equipment that you would want
to hook into your wireless home network. In Chapter 13, we talk about using
newfangled phone gear over wireless networks. In Chapter 14, you hear
about lots of things you can connect today, ranging from cameras to cars.
Clearly, the boom is on among the consumer goods manufacturers to
wirelessly network enable everything with wireless processing chips. You get
the convenience (and cool factor) of monitoring the health of your gadgets,
and vendors want to sell you add-on services to take advantage of that
wireless chip. This transformation is happening to everything: clocks, sewing
machines, automobiles, toaster ovens — even shoes. If a device can be added
to your wireless home network, value-added services can be sold to those
who want to track their kids, listen to home-stored music in the car, and
know when Fido is in the neighbor’s garbage cans again.