arstechnica.com - 2/13/2009
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Think the best news today has to do with tonight's Battlestar Galactica/Dollhouse TV spectacular? Think again. iPhone developer Ralf Ackermann (who Ars posted about last month ) has achieved a working device-to-device Bluetooth solution. He has built on work developed ...
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Developer Achieves iPhone-to-iPhone Connection Over Bluetooth
Cult of Mac —
... iPhone developer Ralf Ackermann has achieved a working device-to-device Bluetooth solution, according to a report at ArsTechnica.
Building on work developed by Matthias Ringwald, who has put together a user space bluetooth stack, Ackerman has built external adapters that plug into the iPhone’s connector port, accessing the phone’s bluetooth stack in a way that could possibly even comply with the standard iPhone SDK, according to developer/blogger Erica Sadun.
With such capability developers could theoretically build games ...
Found Footage: The iPhone and the WiiMote
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... Matthias Ringwald, of iPhone Bluetooth fame, has just released BTstack 0.1 for iPhone. This video demonstrates his group's technology in action, as an iPhone syncs with a WiiMote and then uses the WiiMote for input. Although the system does not yet have OBEX, it is, as Ringwald writes, "better than Apple's nothing." ...
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