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Wi-Fi Communicators For the Real World

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-tricorders dept.

Erik_ writes: "In this most interesting article on MSN Wearable Wi-Fi - The wave of the future?, there is a description of a Wi-Fi Communicator device. Just like on Star Trek (Thanks Gene), these devices provides hands-free, voice-activated communications throughout any 802.11b networked building or campus. The company manufacturing these devices Vocera hopes to begin selling the equipment later this year. Can't wait to get my hands on some of these communicators... Beam me up Scotty."

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  1. Hmm... by kwishot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not like we have cell phones with internet that work nearly anywhere or anything. This is so revolutionary.

    /flamebait (but seriously....this isnt groundbreaking)

  2. Re:One silly patent we won't have to worry about.. by LordNimon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem is that the Star Trek communicators didn't use 802.11, so it would not be a prior art. And don't think I'm joking.

    --
    And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start
    To mold a new reality... closer to the heart
  3. Semi-blatant Vocera plugs by tlambert · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is the third time in a week or so we have seen people talking about Vocera and their 802.11b based "communicators" on Slashdot. This might have been news the first and second time, but at the third time, it pretty much stops being news.

    I guess that Vocera's marketing is working... nice to know that the money they are spending on it is paying off for them (I guess).

    Just like last time, though, I'll point out that they are not a UNIX shop, and mostly not interested in hiring people from this neck of the woods, to the point that their "careers" page won't load in many versions of Netscape.

    -- Terry