By George Thiruva
I just realized this: Bluetooth is 10 years young this year. The special interest group (Bluetooth SIG) was formed and the Bluetooth 1.0 specification was published in 1999. And in 2001, printers, laptops and hands free cellphone kits started to appear. From there, the sky seemed to be the limit: mice, keyboards, headphones, digital cameras, ... - the list goes on.
But one application that seemed obvious never quite emerged - the home theater Bluetooth remote control. Traditional infrared remote controls require line-of-sight between the remote and the receiver on the device you are trying to control - leading to all sorts of couch potato acrobatics when something or someone gets in the way. And, oh the frustration if you try to hide your home theater components inside a cabinet.
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