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Coolest Bluetooth gadget |
thanatos
Joined: Apr 15, 2003
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From: Sean
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What's the coolest bluetooth gadget out there?
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masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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From: Sydney, London
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Well I would say the coolest bluetooth gadget I have is my ipaq 5450!
Here is a good place that sells probably everything bluetooth. Worth a look!
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wapchimp
Joined: Jun 09, 2002
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Its not out yet to my knowledge, but i want bt connectors for my stereo speakers to eliminate cables. Have i just invented these?
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djs497
Joined: Jul 02, 2003
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i reakon they should do a bluetooth tape adaptor for your car. so you can put the tape into the hifi cassett entry point and just use the mp3 on you p800. Infact it would be good if they did that as a non bluetooth product 
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thanatos
Joined: Apr 15, 2003
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A bit off topic I guess, but you can by tapes that connect via a wire to a portable CD player so you can play whatever CD's you want with your car's tape deck. Works with 8 Track tapes as well! (Grin)
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yusufl
Joined: Dec 13, 2002
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yes their is a device which eliminates cables for your speakers and I think it works with bluetooth. Yes ther is the tape device which you mention but if it were bluetooth as well it would be cheaper buying a mp3 cd player. |
janahan
Joined: Jan 13, 2003
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From: UK
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With current bluetooth 1.1 its not possible to have wireless stereo speakers. The bandwidth is simply not enough. Maximum usable is .7 Mbit A uncompressed 16 bit stereo 48khz channel would require AT LEAST a 1.5 Mbit bandwidth (in reality add 50% to 100% to this, for errors correction, and protocol overheads). so we are looking at around 2 to 3 Mbit bandwidth, and that is assuming noone else is in the vincinity using Bluetooth!
A possibility is to use a compression like MP3 or OGG, but this would increase the costs, since each speaker woudl need an MP3 decoder. and again with overheads, u are looking at a maximum 160kbps encoding.
This may change with Bluetooth 2.
As for coolest "looking" BT gadget, hmm, either the HBH-30, T68 (love that light) or the MSI Dongle (everyone asks what the hell is THAT!)
As for coolest BT device.. hmm My HP 995c printer fits that bill quite well!!! Also looks really funky with its silver look, and flashing bluetooth light.
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lord viper
Joined: May 31, 2002
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think!
speakers without cables are possible but stupid.
just how would you power the speakers? batteries? wont last a track. thats why B&O's wi-fi speakers stayed at a prototype stage.
also the next gen of bluetooth is called 1.2 and is being developed and tested by inventel, they claim to have been doing so for the past 6 months.
inventel claim 1.2 can comfortably transmit within 100ft at a speed of 1-1.5 meaning that 802.11g (wi-fi) is still the more superioir format. technically.
also bose made wifi speakers too. but never made them.
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marknicholls
Joined: Feb 23, 2002
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well in the house you would simply plug the speaker into the mains socket....
and i REALLY want bluetooth headphones for my peronal minidisc player.....i cant wait til they are invented!
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wapchimp
Joined: Jun 09, 2002
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Speakers without cables, stupid? I think not. Cables will be gone on most appliances in the future. I await the day i dont have to plug something into a socket for power. Telephones used to have leads, so why not speakers?
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ruff rider
Joined: Mar 01, 2002
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I wanna see some sort of B/T memory device . . . a USB pendrive with B/T perhaps? I could really do with the extra memory for my T610
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masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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ruff rider... something like this perhaps?
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ruff rider
Joined: Mar 01, 2002
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There I was thinking I was on to something ... oh well. I'm on WAP at the moment so I cant see what was posted but I will check it out ASAP. Thanx for the info ...
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Little Jon
Joined: Jun 11, 2003
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@djs497
This thing is an MP3 player that fits in to a cassette player and fools it in to thinking it's a tape. It can also be used as a stand-alone player.
http://www.romemp3.com/
Of course when it comes to playing MP3s in cars, most cars don't even have tape players these days. It's all CDs. Why don't more car stereos have a 2.5mm jack socket?
p.s. As you said, it's nothing to do with Bluetooth, but hey! cool gadgets are cool gadgets.
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kitp800
Joined: Jun 25, 2003
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From: england - stoke
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moving slightly away from BT, well completely
as for CD players i cantwait until the price of HardDisk players comes down.
the Sony HX1 car stereo is a cd player with a hard drive for 40Gb of memory, cause it costs a grand.
PD Hurcules has already produced a CD Player (non car) that converts tracks into MP3 and has a 40Gb hard drive.
Back to BT.
Speakers will need a cable if only to power them.
And all that is need to transmit BT is a plug in device.
That way older, still expensive, speakers will not become redundant.
With Digital TV here (which comes with sound obviously) whats to stop just the sound being transmitted wirelessly? |
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Posted: 2003-07-16 14:43
