Greenstone is a tiny gadget that powers offline chat rooms
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This tiny green widget lets you start a chat room without connecting to the web.
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“This tiny green widget lets you start a chat room without connecting to the web.”
As should be:
“This tiny green widget lets you start a team-based online multiplayer game without connecting to the web.”
“Only works within line of sight,” uh wouldn’t make more sense to just talk to those people? Unless your sharing secrets, there really ain’t no real use of this product. Especially how everything have unlimited text messaging in USA and Canada.
Can’t think of any useful applications for this…
“1000 messages in your pocket”
am i getting old or does this seem not interesting piece of technology?
POINTLESS
i really like the greenstone concept. I wish i had one to test out.
I would like have a one
The thumb is yuck
One of the dumber things I’ve seen I the past few months, oh and the example of people messaging each from different parts of the plane is idiotic
A physical chat room device?
for anyone who thinks this is useless: firechat was used heavily during the hong kong protests. so unless you have absolute faith in your information infrastructure providers, its existence is a very good thing.
Lol…so i’m supposed to text someone RIGHT NEXT TO ME? get outta here.
Is this Justin Timberlake’s geeky twin?
Could this work for iPads? If this could be utilized in a class setting, I feel there could be a lot of potential for class discussions and/or note taking.
they used it on a plane. one does not simply turn bluetooth on on a plane.
Why would you wanna go on an online chat room at a music show? Maybe at an e sports packed stadium… I’m clutching at straws here.
whats the point of doing the video and dont show it working?
Am I the only one that noticed his bulge?
Mesh networks are an awesome idea they need to use LTE or WiFi tho bluetooth hasn’t got the range or sufficient multiple concurrent user support
Why can’t just people go and talk to each other?
Tethering? Anybody?
I can’t see the real deal.….
what an absolute pile of dogshit, there is no point of a device like that
I will never get back the time I spent watching this video, nor the time I spent commenting for the matter.
Wow… So now people in the same room can chat with each other on the phone, instead of… you know… just Fucking Talking!!!
Bluetooth LAN?
Server is greenstone, client is your phone app.
I dont find this amusing.. Privacy issue using Messaging app? and 90 meter max? might as well talk face to face.