{"id":10051,"date":"2013-06-26T20:01:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T20:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2013-06-26T20:01:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T20:01:05","slug":"a-big-ball-of-bluetooth-at-microsoft-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/10051-a-big-ball-of-bluetooth-at-microsoft-build.html","title":{"rendered":"A big ball of Bluetooth at Microsoft Build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Microsoft\u2019s Build developer conference in San Francisco the company is showing off new features of Windows 8.1, now in preview, a major update to Windows 8.0.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/image5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/image_thumb5.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"336\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a session on the Windows Runtime, the platform behind the tablet platform in Windows 8, there was a dramatic moment when a huge black ball rumbled onto the stage and threatened to destroy the \u201cLemonade stand\u201d which the presenters were using to showcase how a very small business might use Windows 8.<\/p>\n<p>The significance of the ball (a custom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gosphero.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sphero<\/a>) is that Windows 8.1 has Bluetooth APIs built in, so that app developers can easily control a Bluetooth device from code. <\/p>\n<p>Robotics is an obvious application, but with increasing numbers of Bluetooth devices out there, this is a smart move by Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Microsoft\u2019s Build developer conference in San Francisco the company is showing off new features of Windows 8.1, now in preview, a major update to Windows 8.0. In a session on the Windows Runtime, the platform behind the tablet platform in Windows 8, there was a dramatic moment when a huge black ball rumbled onto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/10051-a-big-ball-of-bluetooth-at-microsoft-build.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A big ball of Bluetooth at Microsoft Build<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,79,97],"tags":[1189,1447,1000],"class_list":["post-10051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-software","category-windows","tag-bluetooth","tag-sphero","tag-windows-8-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}