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Toshiba Bluetooth Portable Storage Device

Posted by timothy on from the are-you-listening-cupertino dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Toshiba has announced a new portable storage device, Bluetooth Pocket Server, that can be used as a HTTP/FTP wireless server. This device with a 5GB of data can hold up to 37 hours of MPEG-4 moving images. You can read the press release on the Toshiba web site. Now while walking you can be a human web server..."

18 of 170 comments (clear)

  1. I know I shouldn't... by TheConfusedOne · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine a cluster of guys all named Beowolf walking around with these...

    --
    --- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
  2. Next on Slashdot!: by Telastyn · · Score: 4, Funny

    WarDriving for WaReZ.

  3. How helpful! by Chairboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's awfully kind of these posters to tell us how many hours of MPEG-4 'Moving Images' can be stored on 5GB. Seeing as how hard it is for this readership to understand 5 GB in other terms....

    1. Re:How helpful! by drsoran · · Score: 3, Funny

      Reminds me of the retail box on the hard drive I bought that listed capacities in number of hours of MP3s that could be stored on it. :-)

    2. Re:How helpful! by warpSpeed · · Score: 5, Funny

      Could you translate that to the LOC (Libraries of Congress) units please. That is the Unit I am most familar with.

    3. Re:How helpful! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Soon, there will be more than just FTP/HTTP Imagine it...

      telnet girlfriend
      Trying 192.168.23.45
      Connected to girlfriend
      Escape characters are 'Football'.
      What do you want? rm /dev/complaints
      What do you want? mknod 5 12 /dev/do_the_washing_for_me_love
      What do you want? mknod 5 13 /dev/happy_to_let_you_surf_til_late
      What do you want? cat /proc/wallet | grep 'enough_for_a_pizza' | mail me@me.com
      rm: cannot open `/proc/wallet': Permission denied. You are barred from the house until further notice.

      Warning! Liberties quota exceeded.

    4. Re:How helpful! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Could you translate that to the LOC (Libraries of Congress) units please. That is the Unit I am most familar with.

      Oh, that's 25 LOC. BTW, 1 LOC = billion US$ / GB of pirated movie / person.

  4. I can see it now... by Mysticalfruit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your walking along and suddenly the RIAA police run by and tackle some kid for pirating over the air waves.

    Or better yet, you'll go on a warez site and the instructions will be like..

    "Goto the mall, stand in front of the Orange Julius and make the 'pirate sign' in the air. Your download will commence shortly aftwards."

    --
    Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
  5. Cool.... a new iPod perhaps? by Bake · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can't wait for some kid to walk with one of those into CompUSA and rip Office X without even plugging into the computer:)

  6. Does it use IIS? by squison · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your pocket catches on fire because of the latest version of the Nimda virus..

  7. Don't forget to leave the server by ZahrGnosis · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Hey, the file server was down for the last hour, do you know what happened?"

    "Oh, hey, sorry, I had it in my pocket when I went out for lunch."

  8. I think Warwick will get this thing implanted. by Target+Drone · · Score: 2, Funny
    Now while walking you can be a human web server...

    So how long do you think it'll be before Professor Warwick really does become a human web server?

  9. I can see it now... by rleyton · · Score: 5, Funny

    Soon, there will be more than just FTP/HTTP... Imagine it...

    telnet girlfriend
    Trying 192.168.23.45
    Connected to girlfriend
    Escape characters are 'Football'.
    What do you want? rm /dev/complaints
    What do you want? mknod 5 12 /dev/do_the_washing_for_me_love
    What do you want? mknod 5 13 /dev/happy_to_let_you_surf_til_late
    What do you want? cat /proc/wallet | grep 'enough_for_a_pizza' | mail me@me.com
    rm: cannot open `/proc/wallet': Permission denied. You are barred from the house until further notice.

    Warning! Liberties quota exceeded.

    --
    ooooooh! What does this button do? - DeeDee, Dexters Lab.
  10. Think of the Spy oppertunities by warpSpeed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Two agents walk up to a park bench and sit. Never talking, exchanging anything or touching. They sit for 1/3 hour while the secrets are copied from one to the the other. (and if they are double agents the transfer will be bi-directional) Then they get up an leave.

    Man, the CIA and FBI will hate that. You honor in this video we see now non-descript men in a park doing, umm, nothing...

  11. bwahahaha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your pocket catches on fire because of the latest version of the Nimda virus..

    OMG your sense of humor is amazing!! Still ROTFLMAO!!!
    Because it's a poke at Microsoft... and then you suggest that if you have an IIS server in your pocket, and because IIS is vulnerable to things like Nimda, that it will actually combust!! hahahahahahahah
    Where you do come up with this stuff?? Bwhahahahahahahahahah
    I haven't read anything this fresh and clever in a long time! Bravo! Bravoooo!!!!

  12. Re:For the traditionalists... by MaxVlast · · Score: 3, Funny

    Remember when floppy disks and hard drives had this statistic on them?

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    There should be a moratorium on the use of the apostrophe.
    Max V.
    NeXTMail/MIME Mail welcome
  13. hmmm by teslatug · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that 5GB of porn in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? ;)

  14. Cool !! by Tha_Zanthrax · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now we can slashdot real people !!!