Are you looking for an interesting Bluetooth® product for Father’s Day? How about the iBobber Bluetooth Smart Fishfinder?

The iBobber is a castable fishfinder that syncs with an iPhone or iPad. The iBobber uses sonar to locate fish in up to 135 feet of water while the accompanying application lets dad track the hotspots, map the contours and measure water temperature all through Bluetooth Smart technology.

Check out this quote straight from the iBobber press release…I couldn’t have said it better myself:

“Unlike Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Smart provides a secure connection without sucking the life out of a smart device battery (talk on a cell phone for an hour via Wi-Fi, two if lucky, then check the battery). A Wi-Fi link is designed to always be up, and hopefully, connected (and as connected, draining your battery). If the Wi-Fi link goes down, it needs to be re-established and it’s up to the smart device to do that… searching to make a connection… searching… draining your smart device battery – and – between connections – data is lost. Bluetooth Smart is designed for locations where signals drop or fade. Bluetooth Smart enables an ultra-low power implementation of Bluetooth technology, maintains a strong, low energy connection with a smart device, and when needed, the unit powers up, negotiates a data link (highway), sends its data, then shuts down the data link.”

(Credit: Nanci Taplett)