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The Internet: Your Next Remote Control
Makarand writes "According to this article on NewsFactor, a Hungarian company, Timothy Technologies, wants to turn the Internet into a pervasive Remote Control. This device, called
FlatStack, allows users to operate home appliances using the web. The FlatStack is an entire web server on a tiny circuit board which can be connected to the Internet and wired to the device needing remote control. Later versions of FlatStack will connect to appliances wirelessly. The FlatStack, with a variety of applications at home, can also be adapted in offices, factories and agricultural settings. It is expected to sell for around $75."
Am I the only one that's worried someone might crack their password and start doing their dishes? :(:(
...I have to worry about my TV exploding from the /. effect?
Note to M1-ers: a curt but otherwise insightful message is not "Flamebait" or "Troll".
I don't think switching on the toaster when you're not at home is a very good idea. That's a fire waiting to happen.
But imagine if someone's robbing your house and you happen to switch on the lights or something from the web or turn on the music or the tv. If the robbers won't have a heart attack, your house will forever be free of any disturbances.
"Hey, that house looks good, look at that TV! Let's take it!"
"Are you crazy? Haven't you heard? it's the 'haunted' house!"
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Reason for eating out:
"Someone hacked into my fridge...."
I am unique, just like you, and you, and you...
If you've ever seen that commercial where the husband unplugs the fridge when his wife tells him she made her tuna casserole and then they go to Outback because of it...
Husband: "Hi honey, I'm going to be home around 5:00, what's for dinner?"
Wife: "My special meatloaf."
Husband: "Mmm. I can't wait!"
(husband goes to remote admin webpage and turns off the fridge)
A friend of a friend invented a remote-control vibrator. I kid you not! It's wired to the PC and has a web interface so that people in long-distance relationships can intimately stimulate each other during telephone/IM sex.... His company will be selling the product on-line shortly.
.. for my ex-wife, I hope it's programmable.
if $ExWife in $Bathtub {
drop $HairDryer in $Bathtub;
power 1 $HairDryer;
sleep 120;
};
Trolling is a art,
"Hello? Hi Jim, how are you? Well, it's pretty bad here. The lights keep switching on and off and the coffee maker won't shut off. The washing machine keeps overflowing. Every time we turn the oven off, it comes on again. When we turn the thermostat up, it gets colder in here. Last month's electric bill was $15,000.00. We think the place is haunted and just decided that we're going to sell it to the first person to make an offer, no matter how low it is.
(Ding dong...)
"Jim, I've got to go. There's someone at the door."
Sigs are bad for your health.
is nobody else worried what happens when one of those bratty kids misplaces the remote?
Give up. You will never be a geek.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
This is just what I need! What better way to change channels on my TV, that to connect the whole earth to a single network, and then use this network to change channel on my TV, which is set 9 feets away from me.