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To: PartyTime who wrote (13420)	7/17/2000 1:17:20 PM
From: MaryinRed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

while you are giggling...I am anticipating "talking refrigerators" that will tell you when your food inventory needs an infusion of food....as you scan the food in and out .... it will detect "out of date" food codes....power outtage spoilages...and probably even warn people if they are allergic...to the ingredients in a food....based on upc codes and personal medical histories... lol.....that is why I am invested in all this wireless, far out stuff.....because it IS going to happen.... and sooner than you think.....smile..MIR

To: PartyTime who wrote (13420)	7/17/2000 2:49:10 PM
From: cAPSLOCK	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

A talking refrigerator maybe, one which when you say "Butter" opens its slot and presents butter. Parkay... Why spend all that time pawing about, wondering what's inside when you can communicate with your refrigerator? (LOL) Why not! Is this the kind of thing Bill Gates is working on? Well at least all us fat Americans can lose a little weight while we are skipping meals waiting for our fridge to reboot and missing out on all those extra calories when it gets the 'cheese virus'... Good lord. What have we done? cAPSLOCK

To: PartyTime who wrote (13420)	7/17/2000 10:03:44 PM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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.)