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Figure 19-1:
The Jacuzzi
Affinity hot
tub can
add to your
home’s
wireless
entertainment.
Chapter 19: More Than Ten Devices to Connect to Your Wireless Network
Your Car
You can also get wireless speakers designed for the humidity and temperatures
found in the bathroom — note that they’re water resistant, not waterproof,
so don’t expect to drop them in the water and have them work. You
can, though, check out underwater speakers, like those from Lubell Labs
(www.lubell.com).
You can creatively get wireless into your bathroom in other ways, but you
have to be careful about humidity and exposing electronics directly to water.
Check out what this bloke did in his bathroom: www.chasingparkedcars.
com/bathroom/index.html. We think that there will be more and more retrofit
electronics for the bathroom over time, making it easier to add a TV to your
shower, for instance. The electronic technologies are changing too fast to
embed them into devices such as showers that will be around for 20 years.
In Chapter 15, we discuss how cars are sporting Bluetooth interfaces to
enable devices to interact with the car’s entertainment and communications
systems. In Chapter 14, we discuss the range of aftermarket devices you
can buy now that provide 802.11-based connectivity between your home’s
wireless LAN and your car, whenever it’s in range. (We guess that makes your
garage a really big docking station!)
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