Wireless Technology Friend or Foe
... Wireless Technology is the next generation of electronic connection. This new technology allows portable devices – lab tops, cell phones, hand held devices, and the Internet – to connect to one another, providing users worldwide, mobility without the use of cables. Wireless devices connect and transfer information between one another via short-range radio waves, bypassing the need for cables, allowing users to move around and access information everywhere they go. ... Wireless devices use a technique called spread-spectrum frequency hopping. ... Wireless technology has been around for over a decade. As early as the early 1990s, consumers have been using wireless devices via radio waves, such as baby monitors. ... With the coming of the new millennium, the more advanced wireless devices have reached the shores of North America, where it has been rapidly accepted by consumers. Lately, wireless devices have been going through further development to increase the range. ... Without the need of cables, wireless devices are becoming more popular worldwide.