For the sake of discussion, let's say you and I are going on a trip together. We check in and the airport required three hours before departure (or maybe two), then what? We could browse the stores, we could find a screen to confirm our departure gate, and we could read a newspaper. But that's all low tech, and this is a high-tech column.

If we are truly tech savvy, and we are, we will turn on our Bluetooth connection and allow all that information to come to us instead. Flight updates, shopping specials and all sorts of other relevant information can now be sent to our mobile phone at no cost to us.

The system, under the name Bluwave, will offer these services at both international airports in short order. But let's go beyond the airport. Imagine coming off the bus at the HWT Transport Centre and turning on your Bluetooth - your phone lights up with an alert, you see there is the latest music video from the hottest artiste and you are the first to see it, that's cool. Better yet, you see what looks like a TV commercial telling you they have an in-store special for passengers with their bus pass valid for only 30 minutes, that's rich. Best of all, your phone tells you a hurricane is on the way you should head home, that's really helpful.

Not just smartphones, but most phones now come equipped with Bluetooth technology. 'Borg'-type headsets provide wireless access to our wireless phones using Bluetooth and some of us use the technology to transfer files like ring tones between handsets. But never has the technology been used like this in Jamaica.

If you've got a phone with Bluetooth, and you probably do, you don't need credit and you don't need to be with a specific network to send and receive data - you just need the phone. Once you're on, you can customise the system, so you can decide what kind of message you are willing to receive. Let's say you only want text prompts, you can state that. If you're like me, you may prefer video, and you can get that too. Perhaps you don't want messages not suitable for children; configure that as well and get messages well suited to you.

Bluwave seems all excited about advertisers pushing commercials, but I see the possibilities for promotion. Music videos, movie trailers, TV shows clips can all be streamed to my phone without much fuss - unless of course you have a BlackBerry.

So BlackBerry has all these security protocols for Bluetooth with good reason. Bluetooth can be used to gain access to your phone for all sorts of nefarious purposes. But you see, that's the benefit of Bluwave. It's a reputable company that you need not worry about giving access to your device via Bluetooth.

For now, it seems that blue is the new black.

Tech glitch: Can I watch Flash videos on my new iPad? Victoria.

Tech fix: Sadly, no. It seems that until Apple and Adobe work out their differences, you won't be able to watch Flash-based videos on the iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone.

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