The name Bluetooth

[PhonePimpBill]

Someone was drinking a grape soda while inventing it and thought "Aha!"

[BigFatDude]

Why joke on poor harold !
Considering how cold scandinavia is,
anyone can get a blue-anything over there !!

Just thank god that these people
didn't come up with something that
uses Ultraviolet after they got
bored of Infrared .

[ranas001]

its a pretty crappy name

[chorro]

its a pretty crappy name

what should the name be??

[jonesy679]

I can't wait until the new Forkbeard technology comes out. Everyone knows he kicked the crap out of old man Bluetooth back in the day.

Truly next generation

Here's more history about Harald Bluetooth:

.... Why is it called Bluetooth?
blah blah... He was killed in 986 during a battle with his son, Svend Forkbeard. blah... blah...

[anwar726]

Wirelessly posted (Nokia6255/1.0 (N190V0500.nep) UP.Browser/6.2.3.2.h.1.104 (GUI) MMP/2.0)

Nokia 6255 cdma bluetooth not working plz any body help me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[pfreitas]

Well, you're all wrong. Bluetooth was invented in Arkansas, otherwise it would be called, "BlueTEETH"!

hay. i bEn tOo aRsinka.

[1XRTT]

what should the name be??

murky waters?...............

[wazitup]

bluetooth and wireless network is such a good to play on devices

[Mizah]

I think bluetooth fits in pretty well, but i think they should make the wireless headsets look like a tooth.! LoL.

[OfficeRunner]

he sure was! did anyone hear the rumor about him loving blueberries, so he had a nickname of 'blueteeth' or 'bluetoth'?

i did hear the other stuff about him uniting denmark and norway too.



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[entrepreneur7]

Whatever reason they named it bluetooth...

[csongi12xme]

Well Bluetooth.But now it's Bluetooth 3.0 .
And bluetooth,well infra-red.They named these things after colors.

[GlennW]

well infra-red.They named these things after colors.

It's called "infrared" because the devices transmit a spectrum of light just below the visible (to humans) red spectrum. Not because they name it after colors.

Similar to "ultraviolet," which is a spectrum of light above the visible color spectrum of violet.

[Priya Palse]

Here's more history about Harald Bluetooth:

Why is it called Bluetooth?
Harald Bluetooth was king of Denmark in the late 900s. He managed to unite Denmark and part of Norway into a single kingdom then introduced Christianity into Denmark. He left a large monument, the Jelling rune stone, in memory of his parents. He was killed in 986 during a battle with his son, Svend Forkbeard. Choosing this name for the standard indicates how important companies from the Baltic region (nations including Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland) are to the communications industry, even if it says little about the way the technology works.

(Source: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/bluetooth2.htm)

why is it called Bluetooth?
that's really an interesting question we never though before.
and thanks for TB's information.