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1 Kilometer Bluetooth Link to Cell Phone

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the long-distance-wireless dept.

carbolic writes "WiFi-Toys.com has posted an article (with pics) about performing a Bluetooth connection over a distance of 1 kilometer. They claim it is a new world record. They used a Class 1 USB adapter modded using a kit from Bluedriving.com. The over-the-air connection went to an unmodified Sony Ericsson T610 at a distance of 'about 3,300 feet' and they transferred a few pictures. This test was to a paired device pre-configured for the built-in ObexFTP access, but the implication is that now it's easy to Bluesnarf without even being near the target phone."

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  1. Beautiful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    Now, where's my little bluetooth remote controlled helicopter.

    *Rubs hands together in malicious glee*

    Now I can take pictures of people 1 kilometer away, and transfer them to my laptop....

    Eeeexcelleent..

  2. Imperial conversion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1 kilometer = 4.97096954 furlongs

  3. The perfect Friday night story by FunWithHeadlines · · Score: 4, Funny

    So what do geeks do on a Friday night? They discuss extending bluetooth ranges in experiments and speculate on all the ways it could be used, both useful and silly. Now if they could just figure out a way to use bluetooth to get dates...

    1. Re:The perfect Friday night story by John+Jorsett · · Score: 4, Funny
      So what do geeks do on a Friday night? They discuss extending bluetooth ranges in experiments and speculate on all the ways it could be used, both useful and silly. Now if they could just figure out a way to use bluetooth to get dates...

      Actually, geeks spend their Thursday nights talking about how to use Bluetooth to get dates. I guess when their shortrange schemes fall flat, they spend Friday figuring out how to up the distance.

  4. Does this mean... by eieken · · Score: 2, Funny

    Soon we will see people walking around screaming at their phone because someone hacked it? I think that would be amusing.

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    1. Re:Does this mean... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      So then...

      1) Hack bluetooth phone at random

      2) Force it to play an .mp3 of "Can you hear me now?" at maximum volume and for an inderterminate amount of time.

      3) ???

      4) Profit! (Or at least laughter on my part...)

    2. Re:Does this mean... by beswicks · · Score: 2, Funny

      Shouldn't that be

      1) Hack phone to play "give me you underpants"

      2) Take Underpants

      3) ???

      4) Profit

  5. Re:fantastic.. by Atmchicago · · Score: 3, Funny

    I want my Desktop to run emacs and make.

    Well, actually, I use emacs to run my cell phone. But that's just me.

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  6. Pfffft by Billobob · · Score: 3, Funny

    My tesla coil has a range of blowing up every light bulb within 5 miles MINIMUM...

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    1. Re:Pfffft by The+Evil+Couch · · Score: 2, Funny
      bah. I can use smoke signals to transmit at a range of over a 100 miles.

      put that in my pipe and smoke it!

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  7. Pringles cans... by mikael · · Score: 3, Funny

    The over-the-air connection went to an unmodified Sony Ericsson T610 at a distance of 'about 3,300 feet' and they transferred a few pictures. This test was to a paired device pre-configured for the built-in ObexFTP access, but the implication is that now it's easy to Bluesnarf without even being near the target phone."

    And they haven't even started using Pringles cans yet.

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    1. Re:Pringles cans... by beswicks · · Score: 2, Funny

      You mean the scary pringles can shaped wireless sniffer boxes like the ones the us army has been developing to drop over battles fields, which each have a range of 1Km and form an ad hock network to report/jam 'the badguys' traffic.

      OR

      Do you mean 2 pringles cans and a piece of string, like the ones the us army will have to use when 'the badguys' pick them all up and drop them back over the us army?

    2. Re:Pringles cans... by mikael · · Score: 2, Funny

      I meant the low budget wireless booster cans, with the extra spicy cajun flavour. Our research team spent a weekend determining which cans were more efficient (the original flavor, sour cream and onion, sweet mesquite BBQ, or cheese and onion). So far, there seems to be no difference due to flavor. However, we may have to repeat the experiments, just to make sure weather conditions didn't have any influence on the results.

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  8. Wasted effort ? by m4k3r · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wouldn't it have been easier to just take the phone with you ? Surely, that's why they're designed small enough to fit in your hand ?

    Oh, yeah, I forgot this was /.