Toshiba Bluetooth Portable Storage Device

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..."

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In the future . . .

[Anonymous Coward]

Boxen will be spread over a few feet with bluetooth cpus, gpus, monitors, and cd drives all physically disconnected. And crackers may not 0wn your cpu, but if they get your hard drive, you're still screwed.

I wanna be a Bluetooth Radio Station

[BeBoxer]

What I think would be really neat is a simple radio protocol for Bluetooth. That way, I could "share" whatever tunes I happen to be listening to on my MP3 player with the people around me. Other folks on the bus or whatever could "tune in" to see what I was listening to, or I could check out what other people are listening to. It wouldn't even have to include download capability, just a stream of whatever is going to my headphones.

Just imagine this at the next G8 meeting...

[Saint Aardvark]

A protestor goes to the front of police lines and videotapes them. The camera is seized, but there's no tape inside. It's too late to stop the news from getting out; the group's been mirroring the contents of her pocket server the whole time, and are busy putting that up on their website in real time.

Or alternatively, one police car is designated the "friendly face" -- it's got a camera and one of these inside. The police are busy mirroring its movies/images in real time, to show the world that the protestors are getting out of hand and the police are doing their best to keep things cool.

Re:Just imagine this at the next G8 meeting...

[cutecub]

David Brin discusses this very idea in his book, The Transparent Society .

In his example, a person wears a small camera pinned to his shirt which wirelessly streams video and audio to his personal server ( located in his apartment. )
When this hypothetical person is pulled over for a traffic violation, both the the police officer and the driver are on their best behavior because each knows he's being recorded.

I doubt Brin would have imagined his futuristic example becomming plausible quite so soon. - the book was published in 1999.

-Cutecub

This isn't a foolish as it may sound...

[wowbagger]

Consider this hypothetical example:

I have my Citizen/IBM Linux watch - not a lot of internal storage there, but it is my display device.

I have the Toshiba storage device - there's all my disk space, tucked into my jacket pocket where it is out of the way.

I have my cell phone, in an outside pocket. There's my Internet connectivity.

Now, I can check if I have mail by looking at my watch. If I need to read it, I can either view it on my watch, if it is short, or on the phone, if it is longer (I assume the phone has a larger display than the watch).

My tunes are in the storage device, and played via the watch or phone (and headphones, natch).

If I have my digital camera, I now have GIGs of storage to save the pics to.

Sounds like a good thing to me.

I can see piracy will be an even bigger problem

[nvts-NUTS]

Remember the story a few months back about the kid who walked into a story and copied the MAC version of MS Office off a store display computer by hooking in his portable device. Well now they'll be no wires to give him away. Now I realize PC software isn't as easy to copy installed versions of but there is a wealth of data now available to be copied without giving yourself away with any obvious wires.

Hello?

[fungus]

Did I miss something or it has been easy to build a wireless ftp/http server for quite a long time? Bluetooth is slow and has a short range, while a laptop with a 802.11b network card can hold way more than 5 gigabytes, is way faster, and has an operating range very longer.

Now imagine if every kid on the block had a laptop with a wireless network card in their backpack, swapping clips taken from the "security" x10 wireless cameras around the neighborhood with a p2p application.

this would work great with Augmented Reality

[snub]

If someone were walking aroung with AR goggles on (see recent articles here and on k5) you could broadcast an enhanced version of your appearance to them. You could appear in their vision as any object you chose, even animated. This brings Flash to a whole new level!