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Bluetooth

Apart from being annoyingly awkward, Bliuetooth has one particularly annoying facet....

For some reason designers thought it was a cool idea to put blinking blue lights on nearly every operating bluetooth device.

My HTC Dual Touch phone has a fairly innocuous and pleasant blue blink that reminds one it's bluetooth is on. It's small, infrequent and not at all intrusive.

But my Jabra BT headphones have bloody great blue circles that I see, in my darkened office, reflecting off walls.

And my Netcom earpiece has a constant flicker of blue. Both those devices sit on my ears and the lights are only visible to me if they're reflectng off something.

What moron thought distracting blue blinks visible only to people NOT using the devices was ever a good idea? I am not a 1980's stock broker who thinks of himself as a big swinging dick needing everyone to know I'm using some oh-so-fey hands free technology.

It's like twats that dress actors in silver jumpsuits cause it's futuristic man.