Bluetooth: the Next Big Thing?
By Paul Miller 
posted February 21st 2008 1:24AM
posted February 21st 2008 1:24AM
posted February 21st 2008 1:24AM
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skinny Al Roker is dumb
well that segment was a few years late
Yeah! Bring back Fatty Al, er, Fat Albert...never mind.
I liked how the linked site reads "Watching this quick segment...". I'm like, "QUICK segment?". There was nothing quick there, not even Al rockin out to the Beastie Boys.
Hadn't seen Cat since the days of TechTV...
Yes, yes it was late, about 7 years late. . .
Yes, I've been "Bluetoothing" for quite a while.
yes...what did happen to cat? and what else can she do upside down? seems she's been training for some tech olympics.
I heard there was a petition among African-Americans to officially certify Al Roker as white.
As a pre-emptive move, I'm starting a petition saying we don't want him either.
Make sure to post yesterdays segment to, its very informative. Its called "DVD: the next big thing?" it explores this technology that is sweeping the country, and the controversy surrounding storage of information on plastic discs.
hi and welcome to 1998
thank you and good bye
thats what she said.
What's infrared? Frankly, if I can't see it, it doesn't exist.
Wires FTW!!
I think therefore I am.
You obviously don't understand what is happening in the picture above. Yes, bluetooth is a wireless communication technology, but what you don't know is that it is a spirit that needs to be summoned. by pressing a few buttons, or in Al Roker's case, calling it down from heaven with a woman as human sacrifice.
austin, funniest comment i've ever read on engadget.
Fantastic. This should finally end the dilema I face at my store when all the jobless slobs who can stay at home to watch this crap come in asking the tewnty-thousand dollar question of "whats a bluetoof.", followed by "how much."
Not saying ignorance isn't widespread beyond that demographic...
hahahh
hey its better than a having a customer asking "whats better, plasma or hdtv"
Must be a slow news day for them... BT headsets really? If it was 5 years ago great, but today when every joe six pack walks around like a fool with one in his ear????.
sigh.
It doesn't matter how old the stuff on your show is if no one watches your show in the first place.
Well, except those idiots in the window behind the set. Wait, did I just inadvertently admit to something here?
Slow news day? No my friend, this is part of the plan.
Bluetooth, Blu-Ray, can't you see the connection!?
Ow, it hurts, it hurts.
So, what kind of laptop is that?
Is that the DELL M1330 LIKE IT SAYS ON THE SCREEN REALLY BIG?!?!?!?
Wait, is that Cat Schwartz from the good 'ol days of TechTV????
If it is, I remember her as being much more hotter.
That's because you're thinking of her nekkid pictures, and because she's about a decade older now, and has probably squeezed out some puppies and is taking a break from looking hot.
isnt bluetooth when you eat a blue raspberry icy? ?
i keed i keed
oh man that rocking was funny :)))
why making such a big deal of bluetooth so late ... it has been out for years and it has been awesome for years ...
oh that printing took FOREVER .. they didn't even show it :S
do people who actively read engadget need a how to on bluetooth?
Come on, guys. This is the Today Show! Of course they're wowed by them new fangdangle things, like Bluetooth and flashing lights. It's the "People Magazine" of television. Mocking them for their lack of tech-savvy is like shooting fish in a barrel. Move along. Nothing really out of the ordinary here.
@ Jason Martin
Why would anybody ever need to shoot fish in a barrel? It would waste bullets, put holes in your perfectly good barrel (that would drain the water and kill them anyway)and why bother shooting them becasue you have already caught them - hence they are trapped in a barrel. Silly phrase really.
Exactly to the point.
is bluetooth similar to sweet tooth?
Shhh!! Never mention sweet tooth out loud. It makes Roker angry.
Next Week on the Today Show:
Monday: We look at "HD-DVD", a cool new type of videotape.
Tuesday: Criss Angel makes his credibility disappear.
Wednesday: Remember "Pong"? Well now there's something called "Playstation" and it's WAY more sophisticated than "Pong"!
Thursday: Tom Cruise explains his importance to the universe, and shares cooking secrets.
Friday: New teen slang. Do you know what "fo' shizzle" REALLY means? A report you can't miss!
come on people give some credit to zerocurpse
Someone should get this guy in touch with Rick Romero.
"who wants my pictures?"
certainly not me.
Yeah but I like the way Al was like "Ah well, I don't know. Depends on what the pictures are." - Translation "I want to see your gash".
Alright, yeah, we can all have a laugh at the thought of people who still haven't heard of Bluetooth. The sad truth is, a large percentage of the population (I won't even try to guess) hasn't heard of it, and this is a quick way of getting them interested. I can tell you for a fact that my mom has no idea what bluetooth is, but if she were to see something like this she might be interested in getting a headset or something (not likely in my mom's case, but you can see where I'm going with this).
Also, I give them credit for at least mentioning the possibility of bluejacking.
"you can walk around your house talking on your cellphone" and i couldnt have done that before? she should have rephrased it to have all phone calls from all devices hands free.
"Talk to each other." -- truly hilarious.
Blind leading the blind.
You guys seem to be missing the boat on just who the audience of this show is.
Why do tech folks have to be such dicks to nontech folks?
Head over to whatever car news site google turns up first and look at how many times they insult your car-illiteracy
Instead of masturbatory "Ho ho, those stupid tech people couldn't even reassemble a drive train"'s, they focus on the news.
"why do tech folks have to be dicks to non-tech folks?"
You mean, why are non-tech folks dicks to tech folks.
Why do "nerds" get picked on in schools?
Dilbert and The Pointy Haired Boss are a prime example.
Let's move on, Al Roker is keepin his job, and probably received enough requests for an explanation of bluetooth.
That's because tech people haven't ran a TV segment called "Drivetrains: the new kid on the block that allows your steering wheel to modify your car's direction." If we did do something like that, I guarantee you car lovers would make fun of it.
It's not like we're asking them to reassemble a Bluetooth module on the spot (which is what they'd have to do for your analogy to work correctly).
Because it's our revenge for all those years in school! So suck it!0 Technologically illiterate, ignorant non-nerd person! ;P
yeah, i'm sure none of you ever called anyone a "jock" or "prep"
The problem is that people are being spoken to as retards.
So this "bluetooth thing" works when the nanotechnologies "talk" to each other, right? And we're morally against it?
"Bluetoothing". New non-verb for the 21st century.