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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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The gallery software it uses is pretty lame.
For a good web gallery app try coppermine.
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!
Or one below I would think. In most bars I've been to, those decorations came from customers. Even here in Japan it is considered rude to whip out the keitai(pr. 'kay-tie' - cell phone) and start playing with it in a social setting. I know this is a tuff one to handle geeks, but girls usually get dressed up and go to a bar to TALK to someone, not get a crick in their neck looking up at the TV cause the cute geek at the bar is too engrossed in playing with the new toy.
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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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My company currently runs their WiFi with no WEP encryption at all and I figured it would be a dramatic way to show the higher ups how easy it is to steal info from a wireless network.
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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So after 8 hours staring at a screen and tapping at a keyboard, I can head down the pub to... stare at a screen and tap at a keyboard?
Thanks, but no thanks. Pubs, IMHO, are for beer and conversation. I find them pleasant precisely because I'm not plugged in, wired up and in constant electronic communication with the world and its dog.
That said, the Progress bar is already pretty loud and flashy, and has little in the way of decent beer, so there's little to lose.
There's a "free as in beer" joke in here somewhere; I'm just not sure what it is. :)
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Who will be the first to take a picture of their "naughty bits" and zap them up to the big screen?
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Think of the possibilities when beer, cameras, and a big screen at the head of the bar are combined:
... post it. First one to guess who it is, and what part, gets to buy me a round. (wait, did I say _me_? i meant the photographer)
"Am I Drunk or Not?" - you take a picture of yourself/friend/stranger and post it. In true reality TV style, the whole bar votes on whether the pictur-ee is a) as drunk as they think they are, b) drunker, or c) not drunk enough. Much hilarity and yelling ensues!
"Shot Shots" - take a picture of a shot of something, put into the picture rotation. Whenever it comes up, everybody drinks one
"Hot Shots" - variation, but with a picture of a particularly attractive patron. Assuming there are some. The chance of "hot" being "hot" decreases as the night goes on
"Who's ____ is that?" - take a picture of a random body part of someone
any more ideas?
Now if they could just rig the whole thing up to a voting script so everyone could vote for their favorite picture. The top score each hour could win a free drink....the only thing better than beer is FREE beer.
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Many bars are experimenting with it.
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The Foundry Ale Works, a local brewpub, partnered with Telerama to provide wireless access. The access has been free for the last few months as a trial period, but next month they'll start charging. Telerama has wired up a lot of hotspots around Pittsburgh, including several cafes and restaurants.
The first time I used the Foundry's wireless access, I helped the cute bartender study for an exam. The next time I came by with co-workers, she bought us a round of beers. This wireless thing just might take off after all.
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It doesn't mention free internet access. I believe it's simply a wireless intranet they use for their own application: putting images up on the ceiling. Cool, of course, but not a free hotspot.
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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Say, this makes me wonder. Have people used cheap Bluetooth developer kits that they like? I'm just looking for something simple like this USB kit. After all the talk about the Ambient Orb, I'd like to build some wireless toys.