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Wireless Bluetooth Sunglasses
elecngnr writes "Motorola and Oakley are going to team up to create Bluetooth enabled sunglasses. At the CES, Motorola had also announced that they would be developing some bluetooth embedded clothing with Burton, a snowboarding company. " Speakers built into the hood, and controls built into the jacket for your audio player and phone.
Because the manufacturers need another reason to charge you two hundred dollars for five cents worth of plastic?
Call me back when you've got a bluetooth HUD or something. The MP3 player can sit in my pocket.
Does this mean I have to worry about hackers turning my socks into spam zombies?
"He who throws mud, loses ground." - proverb
snowboarding
I was just thinking that what attitude-is-everything people racing down an icy Pennsylvania hill, weaving through other people on a slippery, metal-edged plank and attempting to periodically sail through the air need is an easier way to block their senses.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
And Bluetooth-enabled sunglasses do what exactly? Unfortunately, the article doesn't say. I'm guessing they're going to provide an audio output facility, but who knows for sure?
I'm off to install a Bluetooth chip into my toilet. What is it going to do? Damned if I know, but one things for sure -- /. front page, here I (and my Bluetooth-enabled toilet) come!
Yaz
(...who actually has and uses two Bluetooth devices).
for uncompressed "CD quality" audio, what enables these new headphones and this new sunglasses are the Advanced Audio Distribution Profile, which compresses the audio using the low complexity lossless Sub-Band Codec. These devices usually also support a profile that enables you to play, pause, forward and rewind, or, if paired to a telephone too, to mute the audio when a call is received. This all seems very nice, I just wish these profiles get supported in Tiger (and Longhorn, or Windows XP new Bluetooth stack, to be fair). Can't wait to get some more wireless audio.
Motorola and Oakley better check with their legal departments...Suntiger Inc. might try and sue to protect their intellectual property for "blue blocking sunglasses" which sounds eerily similar to "blue tooth technology".
"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers." Carl Sagan
Wireless Bluetooth?
did I miss a meeting?
If i walk outside my bluetooth radius, i become scared and confused.
What a great product! Now everyone can cause WLAN interference without even trying!
A beowulf cluster of people wearing similar sunglasses... Ok, that even creeps me out.
Oh yeah baby, that's Stylish with a BIG S.
Take a gander here at the mp3 version. Don't be fooled by the photography, these babies are BULBOUS! I think they're going for the cyborg look.
All I know for sure is that when I say them in compusa I just couldn't stop laughing.
I can't imagine using those things snowboarding. They look like they'd fly off with one quick turn of the head. I like lightweight and simple glasses for boarding. They WILL come off your face, unless of course, you are much better than me and NEVER find yourself yardsailing down the slope. Did I mention that they look like shit.
Yeah this is a good idea.
First we complain about drivers being distracted with phones while on the road. Just wait till we have skiers/boarders doing the same. Not being able to hear when you are listening to your iPod is really safe
DAMN YOU bluetooth device people!
If you never make mistakes, it's probably because you're not doing anything.