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To: stak who wrote (67295)	10/24/1998 12:40:00 PM
From: semi_infinite	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

There's a greater threat than HDTV...read all about it! By Nury Vittachi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 29, 1998 CHILLING NEWS: Boffins in Japan have just invented a refrigerator with a built-in link to the Internet. Great! Just what you always wanted! The product will keep your beers cold, while providing a host of features that no fridge has ever offered before, according to the makers, V-sync Technology Co. of Okayama city. "The refrigerator could communicate with other refrigerators and computers," the Nikkei Weekly said in a September 28 report on the device. What it would say to other fridges and whether human beings would want their food storage systems gossiping are unanswered questions. The fridge also has a global positioning system, a satellite-linked transmitter used by sailors to pinpoint exactly where they are on the globe. This will be very useful for those of us whose fridges do a lot of overseas travel and forget to phone home. The prototypes of the Internet fridges have 15-inch screens, and a dozen will be installed in Okayama homes to test-market the product. The big question, of course, is . . . why? "The refrigerator is at the centre of daily life," V-sync Technology's president, Katsuma Fujii, explained to reporters. "Even though people often spend a day without watching television, hardly a day goes by where people do not stand in front of a refrigerator." He has scientific evidence for this. "Our surveys show that the refrigerator and the toilet are the two places where there is the most household traffic." If he is thinking of doing an intelligent video-linked toilet that talks to the world, someone please stop him.