[pcd2k]

http://www.auracomm.com/

Sure, yeh look its early days just yet, but iremember when bluetooth emerged all those techy spinners were going on about all these new devices that were about to emerge with this technology, but hey where are they ?... apart from the mobile phones and a handful of keyboards and mice the spinnners had us believing we would be using bluetooth to open and lock our abodes and imtegrate all of our consummer goodies with one remote control encapsulated in our mobile phone...

[parsec_kadets]

All of that is possible with Bluetooth. The thing is, it kind of came down to a chicken and the egg type situation. Nobody cares if they're cell phone has Bluetooth if nothing else has it. So there wasn't a demand for Bluetooth cell phones, which meant there wasn't a demand for Bluetooth adapters. Since nobody had a Bluetooth adapter, there was no demand for other Bluetooth products. Now you see Bluetooth on the fancy, pricey cell phones, but not the free ones. So some people have a use for the technology, but the vast majority don't. There was a similar situation when Apple first started offering Airport cards. Sure you could use the Internet wirelessly, but there wasn't anywhere you could get a wireless signal so what was the point? All the spinning assumed there was a demand for all that stuff, but there wasn't. That demand is just now beginning to build. Personally, I'm waiting for the Bluetooth enabled movie theater that sets your cell phone (and everyone else's) to silent mode when you enter. Nobody should be trusted to do that themselves.

[southtdi]

Originally posted by parsec_kadets:
Personally, I'm waiting for the Bluetooth enabled movie theater that sets your cell phone (and everyone else's) to silent mode when you enter. Nobody should be trusted to do that themselves.

One of the best uses for blluetooth I have ever heard.

Now if they could just use it to shut up the people talking at stereo levels on the cell phone in restaraunts.