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Wireless Wine Monitoring
Wynken de Word writes "An article in Canada's Globe and Mail says 'vineyard owner Don King is coaxing 30,000 plants to grow grapes of exactly the right colour, size and sweetness to produce great ice wine and other fine vintages...with the help of judicious watering, a knowledge of the age-old art of viniculture -- and electronic sensing devices linked together in a wireless network.' Using an Intel-based TinyOS and TinyDB, multiple sensing devices monitor grape micro climates and help determine irrigation and frost patterns."
owner Don King is coaxing 30,000 plants to grow grapes of exactly the right colour, size and sweetness
because of legal issues they had to replace the word boxers with plants
And here I thought it was something to keep those pesky Windows APIs from getting all uppity.
That's not a soda... it's a caffeine delivery device!
I am sure you are all amazled by this noveliffic use of wireless technology. And, aftr sampling some of my fortifiedallic wine, I'm sure you will want to see my latest fight, featuring the "Weirdo from Bordeaux" and the "Jappa from Napa". It's only $49.95 on Pay-Per-View!
Anyone else read the headline the first three times as "Wireless Wire Monitoring"?
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
"Gather around ladies and gentleman for the most outrageous, the most stupendous, the most fabulous, the most amazing wine you have ever tasted! This wine will knock your hat off, knock your socks off, knock your block off! I say I say again, the match of the millenium, they will call this wine "the tasteah oh the greatah", "the wineah oh the fineah"!
I thought they renamed your country to "Freedom."
How are you going to keep them down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus?
Using an Intel-based TinyOS and TinyDB, multiple sensing devices monitor grape micro climates and help determine irrigation and frost patterns.
Now, if they had only used AMD chips, the increased heat alone would have obviated the need to check for frost patterns!
This whole idea sounds like sour grapes to me =)
"Would you like a McWine with that big mac?"
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Start up your Computer controlled barbecue slow cooker and have a party! Yeeha!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Yeah, if Americans really knew anything about France and wanted to piss them off, we'd name more of our lousy food after them. ;-)
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This is hilarious. A first for Slashdot: the high-brow flame war.
Let those suits tell us we're a bunch of unsophisticated cretins now. =p
When I first skimmed the blurb I seriously thought "Well if he's coaxing the vines that's not very wireless, is it" and had odd thoughts of RG-6 throughout a vineyard. Glad to hear he's not co-ax-ing.
i might've been born yesterday, but i stayed up all night
While growing grapes is nice there are others that might also find this technology useful.
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species I realized that you're not actually plants. Every plant on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you grapes do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every fencepost is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another fence. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Grapes are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and the French are the cure.
Someone named an OS for me.