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To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (9767)	3/9/2001 12:56:24 PM
From: Terrapin	Respond to of 34857

"Lost remote controls. To find the lost phone is easy, one just calls it and listens for it." I was talking more about the traveling executive-type gadgets than the remote controls. "Note that the TV-VCR-HiFi-etc consumer market badly needs something like bluetooth, with the possibilty to hook up the home PC or anything with a larger display, mouse and keyboard, to these devices to make the more difficult menu settings,etc possible to do." Here you are tapping into my main dream; a wireless home network with my PC as a server and wireless client terminals consisting of microphones, stereo-quality speakers and webpad-type touchscreen. All of this is coupled to voice-recognition software so that I can run the VCR, TV, stereo, speaker-phone, web-cams at the front and back doors, thermostat controls, lighting controls, anythingelsethatIcanthinkof controls,... Very Star Trek and very nearly possible right now. There are various home networking products out there now but the standards are all mucked up. Right now I have a cheap laptop with an 802.11 card connecting to my desktop 802.11 card (and the desktop has the cable modem, printer, etc.). But who is to say that the home-network-enabled dimmer switch I buy 10 years from now is going to adhere to the same standard??? Rambling onward, Terrapin