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Strategies & Market Trends : Jorj's Paint The Table -- His Best Thread Yet -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (168)	4/4/2002 8:00:28 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 226

There is something to be said for being able to ban isn't there.

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (168)	4/4/2002 8:04:10 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 226

This is my idea of a great invention. Smart Glass Knows When It Needs Another Beer Thu Apr 4, 7:48 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Drink up that beer -- another will soon be whisked to the table thanks to a hi-tech pint glass that tells bar staff when it needs refilling. Developed by a Japanese electronics company, the intelligent glass is fitted with a radio-frequency coil in its base and emits a signal to a receiver set in the table when it's empty, New Scientist magazine reported Thursday. The iGlassware system works by coating each glass with a clear, conducting material, enabling it to measure exactly how much liquid has been sipped or guzzled. When empty, the glass sends an electronic cry for more beer from the table to waiters equipped with hand-held computers on frequencies similar to those used by mobile phones. A team from the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories working in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has made the first prototypes, but may find it hard to sell the idea to Britons. "It sounds like a fun idea, but I don't think it would work in our pubs," said a spokesman for J.D. Wetherspoon, which runs over 500 pubs in Britain. "The tradition in Britain is to get up and go to the bar for a round of drinks, not to have a waiter b! ring beers to the table, no matter how quickly," he said. story.news.yahoo.com