A use for Bluetooth I'd never have imagined...

:D I've used bluetooth a few times to send some unknow colleagues contacts like "Error, Card empty" or thinks like that. It's funny to see them checking their phone for some error. They even didn't recognice the "New contact" at the top of the display ;)
 
No, I don't think so. SMS is a service i can't disable. But there is no reason why my phone should have bluetooth enabled all day and everywhere. And switching bluetooth on/of just takes me 2 clicks that could be done in 1 second.

BTW: Did you know that enabling bluetooth is not allowed in every country. If you're on holiday in a country where the specific frequency band is not public enabling bluetooth could take a "bad" end. But it's of cause hard to find you doing that due to the short range the weak signal reach.
 
Ha, I saw this on El Reg earlier ( here ) and knew someone would comment! :)
Yahoo don't seem to link the actual website (Link at the bottom of Reg article), but i couldn't help check it out.
I'm pretty dubious about how much of this has actually happened and how much is just talk. I have a bluetooth phone and leave bluetooth turned on for Sailing Clicker, so just in case, I'll have to turn it off when i go out now,I don't really like the idea of being propositioned by what is in all likelyhood a male 18-24 (or whatever the early-adopter profile is). And anyway, my daily travel is on an old style (Routemaster) London bus, and i can't see 'toothing taking off there!
 
It reminds me of a gadget that I heard about a couple of years ago that was getting some attention in Japan. I forget what it is called, but it's an electronic gadget you wear on a chain or keep in your pocket, and it's purpose is 'hooking up' with the opposite sex.

You buy either the male device or female device, and set a dial on the device for the sort of interaction you're interested in, and it sends out a short-range radio signal. If your device picks up on a nearby opposite-sex device with the same setting, it starts beeping like a geiger counter. Follow the beeps to your 'soul mate' ... :D
 
Ups .. I combined the threads brian, I hope it's fine for you, I hadn't seen that thread ... :)

Anyway, it still does not change that La Repubblica's author copied exactly the article from Wired and didn't accredit Wired author of hte article.
 
It reminds me of a gadget that I heard about a couple of years ago that was getting some attention in Japan. I forget what it is called, but it's an electronic gadget you wear on a chain or keep in your pocket, and it's purpose is 'hooking up' with the opposite sex.

You buy either the male device or female device, and set a dial on the device for the sort of interaction you're interested in, and it sends out a short-range radio signal. If your device picks up on a nearby opposite-sex device with the same setting, it starts beeping like a geiger counter. Follow the beeps to your 'soul mate' ...
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This was from the inventor of Tamagotchi (remember, the original "Virtual Pet" which took the world by storm a few years back) and was called -urk - Lovegetti.
 
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