'The PR team hated the name': The 1,000-year-old tale behind Bluetooth
Two ancient runestones in Jelling preserve the story of the Viking ruler who helped shape Denmark – and whose name later inspired Bluetooth. Anyone who has linked a phone to wireless headphones or paired a laptop with another device will recognise the word Bluetooth. The technology may be contemporary, but its name reaches back more than a millennium to a Viking king whose presence is still felt in Jelling, a small Danish town around 250km west of Copenhagen. Two weathered runestones stand
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