Wireless headsets are not "bluetooths"

yea, im waiting for some better stuff to come out, the wireless stuff is way to bulky. Till it slims down il stuck to my sony dj headset with its cord anyday

negative. bluetooth is a patented wireless device connection method/protocal. many phones use bluetooth technology to link the phone to headsets and snyc bases.

you're agreeing with me right? Cause I said pretty much the same thing.

I've never hear someone call a headset a bluetooth, they'll call it a bluetooth headset. And technically you title should be "Wireless headsets are not "blueTEETH""

maybe its just around here that they call them that. I even heard a commercial for a cell phone store selling bluetooths.

I was actually debating on whether or not to call them blueteeth but since it was a brand name or whatever I decided not to.

i cant stand those little things, people walking around with something in the ear, i cant see, so when they talk i always look at them and say what, until they point at their ear

It's easier for people to associate what they're selling. They hear bluetooth and know it's wireless, "dope looking", and what all the cool people have.

o yea

Okay so lets say I have this

So I go to my best friend and say "Hey check out my wireless headset."

Many people that I have talked to would say "Hey check out my bluetooth."

I bought one for my dad and since christmas he's been walkin around with shades on thinkin he's in the secret service. All I can say is, I am deffinitly adopted.

can i convert it to my iTunes?

Man, we better stop calling those 99cm ski things snowblades, too.

we know. what he is saying is that people call the actuall ear piece a "bluetooth" which by yours/mine/his standards is wrong. it is a Bluetooth headset not a "bluetooth"

...why does it matter?

I did but I have not noticed anyone dumb enough to call somethign a bluetooth. same with emo. you cant say "look at that emo." What you can say is "Look at that scene kid" or "look at that fag."

there was something else that was similar that was pissing me off latley, ill post when I think of it.

The comparison of chapstick and kleenex is also the same thing which you are complaining about. Brand association so widely deployed that the majority of a consumer population call a product by a brand name rather than by the product name...because in their shallow ignorant little world that "brand" IS the "product".

A kleenex is a tissue, normally of the facial variety, but they also sell toilet tissue, which is used in typically in the genital area for post excretory purposes. A chap stick is a lip balm/lip moisturizer/lip protectant and it serves the purposes of conditioning, replenishing, protecting and/or lubricating the lip area of your face. It does not have to be applied when/if there is any "chapping" to the lip area and can also come other formats than "stick". example: Lip balm can also come in a "pot" or a "tube" with different formulas and consistancys. Chap stick is a brand of which comes in a tube with a solid form and yields the "chap stick" brand logo, most times in cursive writing along the top of the graphical portion of the packaging material of said lip balm.

There are however certain circumstantial instances where the deployment of the brand name for a product becomes SO wide that the word becomes part of societal language and the dictionary has to be re-written to reflect the organic growth of english linguistics. Example: "googling" or to "google" is now a word in the english dictionary which means to "search for specific information about a person or thing using the google search engine" and is deemed a verb and part of modern "formal" english language.

and no one will accept my "tunamac" as an adejective.

except that zamboni basically has a monopoly on the whole ice shaving thing...i believe

haha i hate tools who walkk around with bluetooths on,my dad does it untill i call him a fag

i dont think the point is that it's a genericized trademark ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark i didn't actually know it was called that, but that link came up when i looked up zamboni), but that you just connect using bluetooth, and by calling that a bluetooth, you are saying that everything that uses bluetooth is one of those, whereas all sorts of things including the laptop i'm typing on use bluetooth technology, and i can't say i walk around wearing my laptop on my ear.

its like calling it internet explorer/firefox/aol and most people are calling www.newschoolers.com

It must be summer...