Maybe they enhance aural sex.

If Shaquille O'Neal became a cop, his partner could radio Shaq.

Unless you're doing work, it seems to me that having WiFi would be the major reason one would keep his or her laptop turned on for a significant length of time on a plane. I haven't flown since January 2007 -- are there now places to plug in your computer on planes? (Even the commuter train I used to take to work until last year had those.) If not, then for me, at least, the WiFi wouldn't really offer anything, especially on a long flight. On the other hand, maybe some people have extra batteries they can swap out, or they have one of those netbooks with super-long battery life. Or maybe they want WiFi only to check e-mail and then sign off.

I have this, sort of. I don't have anything that's ConnectLine-branded or a base station, but a month ago I bought two Oticon hearing aids with Bluetooth, and the Streamer device. The Streamer acts as a remote to adjust the volume in the hearing aids, and it also (optionally) streams audio -- phone calls or music -- from my Palm Centro directly into the aids. This is great in a work situation; whereas previously if I was listening to music through conventional earphones and someone came in to talk to me, I'd have to remove the earphones and put in my hearing aids. Now if someone comes in to see me and I'm listening to music, I push a button on the Streamer and the hearing aids go back to being hearing aids. As I said, I don't have a base station, but the the aids and the Streamer cost me $5,900.00. Mine may have been on the expensive side because I opted for the "in the canal" type, not the type (pictured above) that hangs over the back of the ear. The smaller they are, the more expensive they are.

Speaking of dwindling size, next week I'm getting two Bluetooth-enabled hearing aids. I don't wish a hearing loss on anyone, but since I already wear hearing aids, why not put them to good use and let them stream calls and music from my Palm Centro? The chief reason they have Bluetooth, of course, is so they can talk to each other and adjust reception and whatnot, but with that ability comes the pairability with conventional devices. The only drawback is the need to have this remote control-like thing, preferably worn around the neck because it acts as some kind of antenna. When I was in first grade (a really long time ago) there was a deaf kid who had what must have been at that time a state-of-the-art hearing aid -- a clunky transistor-radio kinda thing in his shirt pocket with a *wire* up to his ear. It almost seems as if we've come full circle.

Oh yeah, one other drawback: the price. Not covered by any health-insurance plan I'm aware of.

It reminds me of the U.S.S. Prometheus in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Message in a Bottle."

"Multi-vector assault mode -- now!"

I hope those giant numerals aren't supposed to represent page numbers. A verso (left) page is always an even-numbered page and a recto (right) page is always odd-numbered, at least in the United States.

They should call it OS-celot.

What I want to know about Android is (1) can you use it in the Enterprise and (2) can you use it with a Data plan?

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