Bluetooth and the End of Audio Wiring

The New York Times reports:

Here at the Pogue Purely Hypothetical High-Tech Mutual Fund, we recognize that although you can’t predict the future of technology, a few calls are easy to make. Right now, for example, there are certain industries we avoid investing in — like analog recording tape, landline telephone service and wires.


The new Kyocera Bluetooth Music Gateway, top, costs about $80. The Wireless Audio Adapter is another $25 or so.

Yes, wires. If you hadn’t noticed, they’re disappearing at an alarming clip. The cord between your home phone handset and the phone body? Gone. The wire between your cellphone and clip-on earpiece? Gone. The cable from your laptop to the network router? Gone.

If you research the whole wire-elimination industry long enough, as we here at the P.P.H.H.T.M.F. do, you eventually run across some less-famous instances of cable elimination. There exists, for example, a little-known product category known as the two-way Bluetooth audio gateway, which includes the Motorola DC800 Bluetooth Home Stereo Adapter (about $60) and the new Kyocera Bluetooth Music Gateway ($80).

Heh.