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."

Comments

Great news

[l33t j03]

The more thongs pics there are out there, the better off we'll all be.

Amendment

[govtcheez]

There are now two things that advance technology: alcohol and pr0n. Please update your notes accordingly.

Ain't thinking...

[cybermace5]

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.

Great danger!

[John_Renne]

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

Whole New Meanings

[big_gibbon]

This really does give a whole new meaning to CAMRA

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Re:I would be the first...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah! On a 70" screen it would almost look normal size!

Upskirt?

[CrayzyJ]

How many upskirt pictures will be displayed on this thing before the owner turns it off?

Thank goodness for technology...

[TopShelf]

Now, the rest of the pub can intervene to help prevent egregious cases of "beer goggling".

Let's get it over with

[JargonScott]

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.

Hmmmm

[kien]

There's a "free as in beer" joke in here somewhere; I'm just not sure what it is. :)

--K.

Bluetooth beer monitoring

[certron]

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.)