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To: PartyTime who wrote (13420)7/17/2000 10:03:44 PM
From: Jon Tara  Read Replies (2) of 18366
 
Actually, PT, one of the Java visions of one of the Java visionaries (forget which one) involves a refrigerator and a wearable computer.

The wearable computer communicates with other devices through your skin. When you touch an object that contains an embedded computer, your wearable computer exchanges information with the embedded computer.

So, when you open the refrigerator door, your wearable computer downloads the contents of the refrigerator. (Which is knows due to RF tags on the items in the refrigerator.)

When you touch the keyboard of your PC, your wearable computer will upload your refrigerator inventory, as well as other stuff it's collected (such as business cards collected when you shake somebody's hand.)

When you visit the store, you will already have your shopping list in your wearable computer, and can upload it to the store's robotic picking device by just touching a panel.

Of course, these scenario was sketched-out a few years ago, and they were silly enough to think we would still have super-markets rathern than web-enabled delivery trucks. :)

(Of course, none of this really has anything to do with Java, nor am I a big Java proponent. It's still a neat idea, and also an eample of the kind of misdirection that is practiced in marketing.)
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