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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."
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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.
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?
Holy s-, it's Jesus!
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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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.
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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