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The Linksys USB Bluetooth Adapter brings local wireless connectivity to your computers equipped with USBs. With Bluetooth technology, this product lets you connect a variety of electronic devices together without any wires, making connections from your notebook to peripherals in an airport lounge (for instance) without all the cable clutter.

With the USB Bluetooth Adapter connected into a USB port on your notebook or desktop computer, you would be able to connect with with up to seven Bluetooth-enabled devices. This would bring ease in synchronizing the data in your PDA, transferring files to other computers, sending files to printers or fax servers, using a wireless mouse, keyboard, or telephony headset, or even using your mobile phone as a link to the Internet. It’s virtually your own “personal area network”.

No batteries here, since it is powered directly from the USB port. The adapter also provides data security with Bluetooth’s 128-bit encryption and “frequency hopping” scheme. The Linksys USB Bluetooth Adapter makes it easy to discover and connect nearby devices, thereby creating a whole new world of wireless connectivity.

At the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show, Linksys, a division of Cisco, unveiled a mouthful of a product called the Linksys Wireless-G Internet Home Monitoring Camera with Audio (WVC54GCA).

It is a web cam that contains its own web server and can connect to a network either through wireless means or over 10/100 Ethernet cable. The WVC54GCA is also designated to offer video streams of high-quality and high frame rate that are either on MPEG-4 or Motion JPEG format.

Because it is wireless, this Internet Home Monitoring Camera can be mounted on a wall or simply slipped into its stand for standard use. When on Security Mode, the camera would send a message with a short video attached whenever it detects motion within its field of view. The user can then remotely log on to the stream and set the video to record to a local hard drive or on a predetermined schedule.

The Linksys Wireless-G Internet Home Monitoring Camera with Audio (WVC54GCA) is available in select Linksys e-commerce resellers at about $120.