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Highlights From Embedded Systems Conference
Tetravus writes "The Embedded Systems Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco is winding down. The finalists for this year's Best of Show include a Trek Style communicator that uses 802.11b, a home healthcare robot, and some crazy giant household remote."
I have heard the word "Embedded" a little to much this year. Time to give these devices a new name.
"when home healthcare robots attack" On VHS or DVD....
They better hope that their web server won some kind of a "best in show", because here we come!!
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This feels really creepy... Years ago I was thinking about interfacing my parents' exercise bike with my computer (the bike has a serial port and sends out lots of data when you're pedaling). I figured you could have all sorts of motivational games and rendered landscapes to motivate your exercise... Now Microsoft has gone and done it.
;)
So I guess my dilemma is if I should applaud it or just conclude that it can't be safe to have an exercise bike running Winows XP
.: Max Romantschuk
Great, now I can get a blue-screen while I exercise. And of course, no mention of the included games, so I'll be trying to play solitare and minesweeper while pedalling with all my might
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
"Trek Style communicator that uses 802.11b"
Beam me up Scotty. What! You aren't Scotty? Why the hell are you on my network!
Why slashdot? Why not?
Wow, that Philips iPronto remote sure is big with lots of buttons and stuff for controling everything in my house!
But does it have a function to mute my wife?
Beam me down an end-tag... we've got too much bold here
Seriously though, I wonder how much it would take to trim this thing down... make it look a little more communicator-like.
Next year I'm going to watch out for the replicator or transporter beam. Personally, if they ever make something like that (and they probably wil one day) - I'd be very wary of being transported around, but it'd be fun to transport other things.
I wonder if you could be so specific as to transport things off of people, would make a very fun test at the ladies gym.
Does anyone else thing that the wakamaru looks a bit like a Dalek?
Someday, some hacker is going to reprogram these robots to run around screaming "Ex-Ter-Min-Ate" like a demented Hitler (until they fall down the stairs, at least).
Ed Wedig
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