Parrot have announced a couple of Bluetooth products at CeBIT 2006 that essentially make your mobile phone a remote control (albeit one that actually contains the content you want to control). First up is their Bluetooth Sound System, which essentially comprises two 60 Watt Bluetooth-enabled speakers. Why would you want Bluetooth speakers? For your new music phone, of course. Simply switch your phone on (a nice Sony Ericsson Walkman, perhaps, or Samsung's i301 8GB music phone), select your tune of choice, and as long as you're within 10 metres of these beauties, the music will stream from your phone and out through these speakers, in a slightly louder form than you'd get from the phone's speaker. The only difference between this and your conventional remote is that the tunes are stored in your mobile phone, and you can take your tunes with you.

[Source: Engadget]

Parrot Bluetooth Picture Frames

Parrot also announced new Parrot Bluetooth picture frames. Same principle as with their Bluetooth loudspeakers: you select an image from cameraphone, and send it to a picture frame over Bluetooth. Again, your mobile phone becomes a remote control, albeit this time for a picture frame (which doesn't normally need a remote control, but this is innovation!)

These Bluetooth gadgets have the potential to transform the gadgets and other living room furniture that we're used to. It can't be too long before we get Bluetooth TVs that let us stream our mobile phone videos onto them, rather than trying to watch them on the phone's tiny LCD screen.