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Magnets To Replace Bluetooth?
aceat64 writes "News.com is carrying a story that suggests magnets could eventually replace Bluetooth as a cheaper and more energy effiect wireless solution. The concept of magnetic induction isn't new, but Aura has managed to shrink the technology onto a single chip. The first device to be made using the technology is a wireless headset that will cost between $60 and $80."
Talk about lack of ambition.
This is JUST what we need! A bunch of wild magnetic fields around our electrical equipment! I can't wait to get an adapter for my computer, there's space in the case right next to my hard drive...
-- Dr. Eldarion --
All my credit cards seem to be erased.
Expect carrier pigeons crashing into your cell phone.
Magnets... the geek's natural enemy, even more so than fresh air and natural light.
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
Bad news for Iron Man.
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
I'm positively repelled by this, flux you very much.
Just another day in Paradise
So the hapless doofi who've spent years thinking a) magnets can heal them and b) phones can give them cancer must be delighted with this new headset; it'll fix those brain tumours right up.
D'you think it's coincidence that the company who came up with this is called Aura?
How can you replace a technology that nobody actually *uses*?
'At the heart of the new interest in what's known as "magnetic induction" is Aura, or so claims the nine-year-old chipmaker'
quick, somebody stop these fiends!
I'm a rabbit startled by the headlights of life
I'm wearing metal braces, you insensitive clod!
also in news, segways could eventually replace cars on commuting, rocket packs could eventually replace aeroplanes, slashdotter could eventually get laid..
you get it, anything could eventually do anything.
(and bluetooth is not useless, obsolote tech. it's pretty useful, and if you're bitchin that you don't need a cellular then it really doesn't make much sense to bitch about not needing bluetooth fo r it)
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
I installed one at my home yesterday, and today my hard drive isn't working and my monitor's got all sorts of funny colors on it. I'm posting this from work... I think I'll install one here to trouble shoot.
Just a se
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RumorsDaily
"Hey, look over there it's bluetooth!"
"What, where?"
"Oh, sorry, you missed it."
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
I know how magnets heal people! you take a large magnet and beat a pseudo-spiritual idiot over the head with it, thus you healed the world of one less germ! I read this headline and saw "magnets" and first thing that came to mind was "erased hard drive" so, replacing a technology that no one uses with a technology no one will use.. smart idea! I think I'll start selling AOL cd's instead of music cd's to get my business flourishing!
Well, according to The Making of Star Trek, a Cochrane warp field generator creates a bubble of "warp space" around the generator. This effectively places anything inside the field into a transient alternate universe: electromagnetic fields on either side cannot penetrate this bubble. So, presumably the people that came up with this "magnetic communications" technology simply supply a low-powered warp-field generator with each device, thereby limiting the effective communications range.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Dear God! I don't think the aluminum foil in my deflector beanie is thick enough to handle all that! Quick, get me some sheet metal!