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Most private hospitals can only dream of the futuristic medicine Dr. Divya Shroff practices today. Outside an elderly patient's room, the attending physician gathers her residents around a wireless laptop propped on a mobile cart. Shroff accesses the patient's entire medical history--a stack of paper in most private hospitals. And instead of trekking to the radiology lab to view the latest X-ray, she brings it up on her computer screen. While Shroff is visiting the patient, a resident types in a request for pain medication, then punches the SEND button. Seconds later, the printer...
...aside the better part of the morning to set up Logitech's Wireless DJ Music System. There's a USB transmitter that plugs into the PC, a remote control with 100-meter range, and a charging station that you connect to a sound system or boombox. With three distinct, potentially tricky components, I was prepared for a slow trudge towards harmonious functionality. Instead, I was grooving to my tunes...
...tunes, I mean songs I bought on iTunes. That's right, in addition to unprotected MP3s, the Logitech Wireless DJ lets you stream purchased tracks that were carefully locked down by the good folks at Apple (plus those secured in Microsoft's competing rights-managed formats). It's a can't-beat-'em-join-'em strategy: The practically invisible Logitech StreamPoint simply tells the iTunes and Windows Media Player software what songs to play. When the music starts, the software streams it wirelessly through the USB transmitter to the receiver waiting at your sound system...
...Many wireless music systems have walked in and out of my life, but with Logitech's simple setup and compatibility with all of my Internet music purchases, I was really loving it. The clincher is the wireless remote, which displays all of the artists, albums and songs alphabetically on a clear and spacious screen. There's a wheel for scrolling through names, and a special button for adding tracks to an on-the-fly playlist. Admittedly, the design isn't brand-new - Creative had a primitive version of this years ago, and Sonos has a more advanced...
...will issue an update shortly. A larger issue is that the music hiccups every now and again. If you're handling the remote while music is playing, the system gets busy and you hear little nuggets of silence. Although the system operates on a powerful version of the Bluetooth wireless networking system - and sounds significantly better than any stereo Bluetooth device I've heard to date - it can also experience interference with Wi-Fi devices and other radio-emitting products in your home. Such are the pitfalls of wireless technology...