Thanks, Will, for the reference to the Bluetooth web site.
Excerpt from bluetooth.com
The instant postcard
Send instant photos and video clips from any location.
Cordlessly connect your camera to your mobile phone or any wire-bound connection. Add comments with your mobile phone, a notebook or your laptop and send them instantly to a receiver anywhere in the world. Suitable for professional as well as personal use.
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Comment: If a camera or video camera can be cordlessly connected to a mobile phone, which we shall assume has CyberDisplay, couldn't a future "camera" be "trimmed down" to a very small, portable sensing device that captures images--a "camera" device remotely controlled by a mobile phone? Since Bluetooth would allow one to "cordlessly run and control...a projector," a mobile phone with CyberDisplay should be able to control the small, portable, remotely controlled image capturing device. Because the selection of the desired image would be done by a person using the mobile phone, the controls of the camera could "enter" into the mobile phone's virtual display (e.g., via a control tools bar seen on the display, perhaps). Furthermore, such a mobile phone could probably control several of these small, portable, remotely controlled image capturing devices.
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Another excerpt from same source:
The interactive conference
Connect all participants for instant data exchange. In meetings and conferences, you can share information instantly with all participant, and without any cord connections.
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Comment: If mobile phones are being used, the sharing of large amounts of information means the phones will need a virtual display like CyberDisplay.
This interactive sharing of information may also make possible an advanced form of Lovegety (see below). When reading the excerpt below, note that Lovegety's range is 4.5 meters (15 feet) while Bluetooth is 10 meters.
From tsetse26@hotmail.com
Organization Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Date Fri, 15 May 1998 17:55:39 GMT
Newsgroups soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.usa,alt.jyotish,soc.culture.pakistan
Message-ID <6jhvir$lg4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
TRUST YOUR LOVEGETY AND NOT SOME JYOTISH CHART!!
When would-be lovers in Japan meet that special someone these days, they can truly say bells have rung.
Or, more properly, bleeped.
A love detector that bleeps when the chance of romance comes near has taken the Japanese market by storm, ringing up sales unseen since a distant cousin, the "Tamagotchi," burst on the scene two years ago.
The egg-shaped device comes in male and female versions. One has a blue underside and the other pink, and they are small enough to fit in a hand.
Owners can set the device to show display lights according to whether they are in the mood for a simple chat, ready to sing karaoke, or want to go all the way up to the "Get2" mode, in which anything the couple wants goes.
When a male Lovegety and a female Lovegety come within 4.5 meters (15 feet) of each other, a high-pitched bleeper goes off, alerting the owners to a possible rendezvous.
Neither responds to the same sex.
Once a hopeful couple has homed in on each other, a delicate social ritual ensues as they size each other up and, if mutually agreeable, try to match Lovegety program modes. When harmony reigns, the machines flash green.
"Men wanting to meet women, and women wanting to meet men - it's a universal theme, and this toy is here to make the whole process easier, less embarrassing," said Takeya Takafuji, at the Tokyo branch of Erfolg, the firm that makes them.
The devices are certainly proving an attraction for reserved Japanese. Priced at 2,900 yen - around $25 - some 350,000 have been sold since they hit the stores this February.
Men have bought more than half, said Takafuji, because "Japanese men are very shy." |
