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The Internet: Your Next Remote Control

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-named-company dept.

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."

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FORK PORK

  2. I believe Einstein once put it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population."

  3. frost pissed! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Everyone knows that CF was hotter than NP. Take that, you Portman freaks.

  4. So, so small by William+Gates,+Jr. · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Laptops have always been a hot item but a 50-year-old scientist didn't realize to what extent until he burned his penis.

    The previously healthy father of two remembered feeling a burning sensation after he had been writing a report at home for about an hour with the computer on his lap.

    He noticed a redness and irritation the following day but it wasn't until he was examined by a doctor that he realized how much damage had been done.

    "The ventral part of his scrotal skin had turned red, and there was a blister with a diameter of about two centimeters (0.8 inches)," Claes-Gorn Ostenson, of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, wrote in a letter published in The Lancet medical journal Friday.

    Two days later, the blisters broke and the wounds became infected and then crusted but after about a week the unidentified scientist was "healing quite rapidly."

    Ostenson noted that the computer manual did warn against operating it directly on exposed skin but said the patient had lap burns even though he had been wearing trousers and underpants.

    This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...

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