Back to Bluetooth

I recently exposed the critical weakness of the "Bluetooth Miracle:" turn your back on it and your signal is lost. Bluetooth likes line-of-sight, clean air, and no more free space than 23 1/2 inches to transmit. Trying to transmit through clogged arteries, more fat than any person should carry, and bones are not Bluetooth's strong suit. And their claimed 30-foot range occurs only in Utah.

Now, Bluetooth works fine with your phone in your pocket and a Bluetooth earphone stuck in your ear mere inches away. Works fine in your car, too, because EVERYTHING is less than 23 1/2 inches away.

Bluetooth? Works like shit everywhere else.  First off, it was designed and optimized for telephones. Do you have ANY idea what the fidelity is on telephones?  Play a little music on Bluetooth and its name becomes clear - your teeth ache.

But help is on the way - new technologies that transmit music with stunning clarity are on their way.

But seriously - the NSA has all this music: we DID pay them to collect it (however inadvertently), so just stream it to us for free. Am I missing something? We curmudgeons want to know.