Magnets To Replace Bluetooth?

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Magnets To Replace Bluetooth?

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday September 20, 2003 @02:31AM from the but-i-just-got-my-bluetooth-stuff dept.

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."

10 of 193 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Replace bluetooth? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-20 02:33 · Score: 5, Funny

Talk about lack of ambition.
YES! by DrEldarion · 2003-09-20 02:34 · Score: 5, Funny

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 --
Does anyone think about the environment? by spektr · 2003-09-20 02:35 · Score: 4, Funny

Expect carrier pigeons crashing into your cell phone.
Hrmm by acehole · 2003-09-20 02:40 · Score: 4, Funny

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.... by moehoward · 2003-09-20 02:40 · Score: 4, Funny

Bad news for Iron Man.

--
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
What's the attraction? by dcw3 · 2003-09-20 02:41 · Score: 4, Funny

I'm positively repelled by this, flux you very much.

--
Just another day in Paradise
AT least it'll keep the loonies happy by rde · 2003-09-20 02:42 · Score: 5, Funny

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?
Eh? by BJH · 2003-09-20 02:42 · Score: 5, Funny

How can you replace a technology that nobody actually *uses*?
Child Labour? by nih · 2003-09-20 02:48 · Score: 5, Funny

'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 :(
Hmm... by DoorFrame · 2003-09-20 03:01 · Score: 4, Funny

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

--

--
RumorsDaily