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Wireless Bluetooth Sunglasses

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

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.

8 of 172 comments (clear)

  1. MP3 Player built in? by ashpool7 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Call me back when you've got a bluetooth HUD or something. The MP3 player can sit in my pocket.

  2. Bluetooth clothing? by Mudcathi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does this mean I have to worry about hackers turning my socks into spam zombies?

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    "He who throws mud, loses ground." - proverb

  3. The goggles! They do nothing! by Yaztromo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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).

  4. While Bluetooth 1.1 does not have enough bandwidth by Karpe · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  5. Dept. of redundancy dept. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wireless Bluetooth?

    did I miss a meeting?

  6. Interference! by Line_Fault · · Score: 4, Funny

    What a great product! Now everyone can cause WLAN interference without even trying!

  7. They are Stylish!!! by djplurvert · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  8. Re:Important Safety Tip by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure. "Hi! Yeah, I'm on the snowboard. Hang on, I'm about to Bono this tree..."

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