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Nick Thompson

clueless technology question

Hi, everybody,

Does anybody out there use Bluetooth headphones with their computer? I was given a pair for Christmas (sony mdr-10rbt) which is specified to operate at ten meters. I have them paired on my computer with a CSR 4.0 dongle which is supposed to get 30 plus meters. Together I can barely get 4 meters out of them. Sony has agreed to send me new phones, but I didn’t get the feeling that their technical folks had any idea what was going on. They couldn’t answer questions like, “well have you been getting a lot of these back?” I suspect it’s either an “environmental problem” or just a limitation not reflected in the specifications, and that a new set of phones is not going to solve the problem. Does anybody have any experience with this technology?

Thanks,

Nick

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

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Marcus G. Daniels

Re: clueless technology question

“Why not use your phone and get an app that will make your music available.”

http://gizmodo.com/apple-watch-will-play-music-on-bluetooth-headphones-no-1634369364

Nick Thompson

Re: clueless technology question

Marcus,

Telephone? You mean that black thing that hangs on the wall? With the round thing on the face of it that goes click-click-click when you turn it? Can it DO that?

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 4:04 PM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

“Why not use your phone and get an app that will make your music available.”

http://gizmodo.com/apple-watch-will-play-music-on-bluetooth-headphones-no-1634369364

Steve Smith

Re: clueless technology question

On 1/10/15 5:54 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:

Marcus,

Telephone? You mean that black thing that hangs on the wall? With the round thing on the face of it that goes click-click-click when you turn it? Can it DO that?

Yes, but the music *is* limited to the kind you can make with combinations of "click, click, click" ... it gets old real fast

N

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

From: Friam [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 4:04 PM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

“Why not use your phone and get an app that will make your music available.”

http://gizmodo.com/apple-watch-will-play-music-on-bluetooth-headphones-no-1634369364
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Marcus G. Daniels

Re: clueless technology question

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I’m not sure this is Bluetooth compatible, but perhaps you could make a backpack out of it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-western-electric-telephone-wall-hung-wood-hand-crank-volume-control-329w-/121538621404?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c4c442fdc

You certainly could charge all your USB devices with one of those magnetos. (No, don’t do that – they will blow up!)

More like run a microwave with a few of them and a friend or two.

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 5:54 PM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

Marcus,

Telephone? You mean that black thing that hangs on the wall? With the round thing on the face of it that goes click-click-click when you turn it? Can it DO that?

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

From: Friam [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 4:04 PM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

“Why not use your phone and get an app that will make your music available.”

http://gizmodo.com/apple-watch-will-play-music-on-bluetooth-headphones-no-1634369364

Nick Thompson

Re: clueless technology question

Thanks, guys. Your patience astounds me. And now, let me ask the list a still less interesting, more luddite technology question: Where can an exiled Bostonian go to watch a Patriots game in Santa Fe? We actually don’t own a TV. N

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 7:14 PM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

I’m not sure this is Bluetooth compatible, but perhaps you could make a backpack out of it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-western-electric-telephone-wall-hung-wood-hand-crank-volume-control-329w-/121538621404?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c4c442fdc

You certainly could charge all your USB devices with one of those magnetos. (No, don’t do that – they will blow up!)

More like run a microwave with a few of them and a friend or two.

From: Friam [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 5:54 PM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

Marcus,

Telephone? You mean that black thing that hangs on the wall? With the round thing on the face of it that goes click-click-click when you turn it? Can it DO that?

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

“Why not use your phone and get an app that will make your music available.”

http://gizmodo.com/apple-watch-will-play-music-on-bluetooth-headphones-no-1634369364

Owen Densmore

Re: clueless technology question

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On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Thanks, guys. Your patience astounds me. And now, let me ask the list a still less interesting, more luddite technology question: Where can an exiled Bostonian go to watch a Patriots game in Santa Fe? We actually don’t own a TV. N

I recorded the Ravens vs Pats and am loving it, the Ravens loose by 35-31. I think you can watch it online, the prime tv channels are starting to make recent programs available. Dede even figured out how we could get a program we missed, and "mirror" it to the tv from her iPad.

-- Owen

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

Parks, Raymond

Re: [EXTERNAL] clueless technology question

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<base href="x-msg://423/"> That reminds me of the time we were asked to provide a security monitoring system for a nuclear site in a remote part of Russia. The task was pretty simple from a monitoring standpoint - a single-entrance bunker. The Russians wanted it to report all the way back to Moscow, however, so we asked about telecommunications. This was back in the days of modems, so we first asked about telephone lines. They told us that the site had a telephone. When we asked what type, we were told it was a hand-crank field telephone. Since we didn't have a robot arm capable of hand cranking the telephone, we declined to build the monitoring system.

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On Jan 10, 2015, at 7:13 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:

I’m not sure this is Bluetooth compatible, but perhaps you could make a backpack out of it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-western-electric-telephone-wall-hung-wood-hand-crank-volume-control-329w-/121538621404?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c4c442fdc

You certainly could charge all your USB devices with one of those magnetos. (No, don’t do that – they will blow up!)

More like run a microwave with a few of them and a friend or two.

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 5:54 PM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

Marcus,

Telephone? You mean that black thing that hangs on the wall? With the round thing on the face of it that goes click-click-click when you turn it? Can it DO that?

N

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

From: Friam [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 4:04 PM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

“Why not use your phone and get an app that will make your music available.”

http://gizmodo.com/apple-watch-will-play-music-on-bluetooth-headphones-no-1634369364

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