Disneyland Paris has been testing bluetooth technology kiosks to allow guests to get wait times for rides throughout the park according to this article. This sounds pretty cool, but still misses the point of my earlier post about making wait times available via cell phone on the web. Bluetooth has a very limited range - only 10 feet or so. If they made the same information available via a web site that you could access on your cell phone then you could access it anywhere in the parks rather than having to huddle around a kiosk. As 3G access becomes the norm in the US we will get used to having Internet access all the time on our phones. I hope Disney gets their act together.
In addition, if this data were available you could do a nifty mashup with Google showing wait times as stacked bar graphs, for instance. Wouldn't that be cool?
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