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RE: [PLUG] Usage ideas for home network...(a bit of OT ramblings)
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Title: RE: [PLUG] Usage ideas for home network...(a bit of OT ramblings)
I'd rather have my father's dream refrigerator.
After the door is open for 5 secs, it will automatically
shut, light will turn on, and a instant picture will pop
out of the door.
Then a voice says, "why not take a picture of it and shut the door" :)
I seem to remember a /. article on a linux controlled
alcohol dispenser that basically was a bunch of wiper pumps that
dispense different kinds of alcohols (and mix automatically).
That might work. Have Milk in one, water in another, etc...
and the system was setup so when it was empty it would email that
it needed to refilled. I could see a corner store niche here.
Get the email, fill the order, then email back that it's ready.
Keep fruit in a "basket" that has a scale under it, when the weight
reaches close to zero, refill order! Or someother kind of vending machine
style that dispenses one at a time. I just see it now, banging and
trying to knock at the refridgerator because your apple is stuck and
wont fall!
George
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris [mailto:chris@chrisbovasso.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 4:01 PM
>To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
>Subject: RE: [PLUG] Usage ideas for home network...(a bit of OT
>ramblings)
>
>
>I think the "smart home" thing will become a huge industry
>once they get
>smart enough to create smart kitchen appliances. Imagine a
>refrigerator that
>knows when your milk goes bad or when you run out of hot dogs
>it just buys
>more and gets them delivered.
>
>I can see it now:
>
>"I am sorry Chris; I can not allow you to use that milk."
>
>In a more realistic sense I wonder how Linux will be used in future
>capacities. Obviously it is used in many consumer products
>already but not
>to the level that the consumer is aware that their product is really a
>computer.
>
>
>Sorry for the off topic branch of this discussion. I did get
>some good ideas
>for the original question that I posed. Thank you all again
>for your help!
>
>Chris.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
>[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Ozor
>Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 2:42 PM
>To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
>Subject: RE: [PLUG] Usage ideas for home network...(a bit of
>OT ramblings)
>
>Check out www.smarthome.com they send a free catalog every month and
>it's fun to look at.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
>[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of sloopy
>Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 2:30 PM
>To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
>Subject: RE: [PLUG] Usage ideas for home network...(a bit of OT
>ramblings)
>
>On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 12:33, Matthew Ozor wrote:
>> Here's an idea for you, get a patent for it... then hope someone else
>> builds it. Sue them for rolities- The American Way :-)
>>
>
>even help them build it and then sue them and call your self SCO ;')
>
>seriously,
>
>one thing i always thought was cool was a 'digital home' i.e. having
>lighting and other things controlled by computer in the
>house... set one
>up with an X-10 type setup so everything can be controlled by one
>machine, put a couple monitors on it throughout the house and and it
>could also show other things, like email, news, even the
>results of last
>nights hockey (or uh foosball ;') game...
>
>
>i think it would be cool to have the lights in the house going on and
>off back and forth across the front of the house...
>
>sloopy.
>
>
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