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Beer and Bluetooth
juxter writes "The BBC is reporting on a London bar which has installed a Bluetooth and WiFi access point. Owners of camera phones can wirelessly send their pictures to an overhead screen and web based gallery - The system runs the LocustWorld Linux based MeshAP which has been extended to drive bluetooth devices as well. Hopefully this will encourage more UK premises to deploy free hot spots."
The more thongs pics there are out there, the better off we'll all be.
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At least now I can get my friend to see me looking thirsty while he stands at the bar chatting and not getting the beers in :-)
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The first thing someone will do with their camera phone: take a picture of a mouthful of chewing-in-progress food. Then laugh endlessly when the picture comes up on the overhead.
After that gets old...no, I don't want to think about it. They'd better enclose the bathroom with a grounded wire mesh shell.
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Everybody that ever saw pictures of themselves taken after spending an evening drinking in a pub knows this forms a great danger. The last thing you want to see is proof afterwards
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This really does give a whole new meaning to CAMRA
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Stay at home and get a friend to spill some beer on your laptop. Then have a fistfight. Just like a real British pub!
So some Brits put some .gifs and some screenshots in the server's pub dir? I don't see why this is news, most of the stuff in that folder is junk anyways.
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Yeah! On a 70" screen it would almost look normal size!
How many upskirt pictures will be displayed on this thing before the owner turns it off?
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Now, the rest of the pub can intervene to help prevent egregious cases of "beer goggling".
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Let's go ahead and bluetooth/wireless/etc everything in site, so this all can end.
When I can see if my dog is out eating poop in the back yard across her webcam toting, pringles can antenna/802.11b utility collar, all from the comforts of my fridge mounted display, I'll be in good shape.
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You've got to wonder how long it will before someone gets caught our when they say they weren't down the pub :)
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There's a "free as in beer" joke in here somewhere; I'm just not sure what it is. :)
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Why doesn't someone stick a small bluetooth device in the beer mugs themselves, so you can tell when they are empty? Then they could be refilled, or someone who has had too much too quickly can be engaged in conversation, instead of giving them more beer. I heard some company did this, probably I saw it on TechTV, but I don't know if they used bluetooth. Probably they just used their own thing, and the mugs talked to the table (well, not the table itself, and not the mugs, really... but y'know, the electronics stuff does the talking.)
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