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Jaap Haartsen

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CrowdScience
How does Bluetooth work?

And that's what Bluetooth does as well.

CrowdScience
How does Bluetooth work?

Right.

CrowdScience
How does Bluetooth work?

And the logo, yeah, it actually consists of two parts, and it comes from the rune alphabet.

CrowdScience
How does Bluetooth work?

One part is really a bee, bee from Bluetooth, but actually his first name is Harald.

CrowdScience
How does Bluetooth work?

And Harald in the rune alphabet is written as a pole with an X.

CrowdScience
How does Bluetooth work?

So if you have a pole and an X and you merge that with the B, then you get the logo which you see today.

CrowdScience
How does Bluetooth work?

No, no, no.

CrowdScience
How does Bluetooth work?

I was a happy engineer just working with new scientific challenges.

CrowdScience
How does Bluetooth work?

But then at a certain moment in 2006, I read an article and it said, okay, there are 1 billion Bluetooth devices shipped.

CrowdScience
How does Bluetooth work?

And then I thought, oh, wait a minute, this is all very serious.

CrowdScience
How does Bluetooth work?

This will not go away anymore.

CrowdScience
How does Bluetooth work?

And I think there are like six or seven billion devices every year shipped now.

CrowdScience
How does Bluetooth work?

But also, some years ago, I bought a sauna.

CrowdScience
How does Bluetooth work?

And the sauna had Bluetooth inside, so I can listen to podcasts while in the sauna.

CrowdScience
How does Bluetooth work?

Yeah, that's amazing.

CrowdScience
How does Bluetooth work?

I never have imagined that.

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