Fwd:Re[2]: Internet Refrigerator

[richard@auscoms.com.au]

And since we're on trivia: back in 1992, at Interop in San Francisco, I saw the
IP Toaster, and an IP-enabled pushbike (solar-powered laptop with radio modem)
called Behemoth (an acronym of which the last three letters stood for "only too
heavy"). Plus la change...

Richard Chirgwin

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Subject:    Re: Internet Refrigerator
Author: Jan Whitaker <jwhit@PrimeNet.Com>
Date:       14/08/98 15:41

There is a guy in Finland who came here for the Virtual Oppportunity
Congress in Melbourne last year who has his fridge hooked up to the net,
along with lots of other things in his house.  He's the Technology
Director for Helsinki Telephone.  

Then there was the coke machine in some US uni that had a supply detector
in it that anyone could check so they didn't make wasteful trips to the
machine away from their computers.

JW

Jan Whitaker
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