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Trekkie Communicators Now a Reality
SolFire writes "Forbes is carrying an article about Vocera Communications and their little internal communication system that they have working at their office that functions like the badge communicators from ST:TNG. The employees wear the system as a badge and touch it to start the connection. Then they speak the name of the person they want to talk to and the system connects them using VOIP for one-on-one communication." We mentioned these in 2002.
but does it make the classic "deet deet" sound?
Data: Data to Lt Worf.
No real delay
Worf (over comms): Go ahead Data.
The delay is only enough for Worf to open his mouth and talk. It is not long enough to replay "Data to Lt Worf." I freely admit I'm crazy.
Scotty at work is really going to hate me...
...why technology will ever become a fashionable accessory.
It's also easy to integrate the system with desktop phones and mobile phones. The database software allows the device to forward its messages to phones and pagers and also can accept calls forwarded from phones.
This would seem to be the next logical step for the Nextel style "walk-talkie" communications. In a few years we will all be taping our shirts to answer our phones, but the only real limiting factor I see here is I cannot really imagine everyone using a cell phone today escentially walking around talking on a speaker phone. It would be so overwhelming that you would hardly be able to carry on a conversation.
It that ends up the case, I'm sure we will all be sitting around telling people how we remember the good old days when you could actually hear yourself think in a public place.
If they could make the whole thing fit into an ear piece, and just use the mini-boom mic that you see on a lot of cell phone head sets now, they would probably spread like wild fire, but all I have to say is I have a hard enough time not losing my cell phone as is.
-Adam C. Greenfield
... might help prevent all the double posts we get regarding VOIP articles.
What do they do if there are two people with the same name?
we can develop warp drives and phasers. I give a little time on the photon torpedoes.
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That is one heck of a badge from the picture they show. I was thinking of the little triangle pin-on from Star Trek.
...everyone answers to "Nerd".
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
...is just gonna look like a homeless wacko saying "can you hear me now?" just staring into the sky...
It knows what you want before you do
One thing that never made sense about Trekkie communicators is how does the communicator know who the heck to contact? You always see the trek dude touch the communicator and say "Mr Foo. Are you there"? Does that get broadcast to everyone with a communicator? If so that would be annoying! Damn Star Trek.
...can i buy one?
They should have used a wifi standard. They could have sold to a larger market. Many cities (ie, Verizon in Manhattan) are putting up wifi hot spots. Then you wouldn't be limited to the office. People could also use it around the house if it could patch into the POTS network.
Someone could use it around the house while watching TV to alert the wife that a new cold beer is needed.
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Shatner uses these to dictate his albums to his secretary...
"Dr. Johnson, please finish your business and get back to Ward 3"
Sometimes you need a little peace and quiet.
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There is no way I will ever be able to talk my wife into letting me have one of these setups. Darn!
Imagine how cool when you forgot your hand over your badge and start saying things you shouldn't be saying :)
It'd look a little odd to see someone walking down the road, repeatedly tapping their chest, saying "Robert! *smack* Ro-bert! *smack* Robbberrrtt! *smack* "
Maybe it uses the NASA technology to know what your going to say b4 you say it SlashDot -Auger
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What they've produced is an ugly little box which you keep in your pocket, purse or belt. What they could have had -- for minimal extra investment -- is something that people would be proud to show off. Vocera need to have a conversation with the folk at Apple.
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Just disable them when people enter the bathroom - just think how many people would sit there and talk while they really shouldn't be..
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I really think that essentially, this is what already happens, in a lot of corporate bull pens you see people walking around talking into space. And it defiantly happens in the car. The badge link is the next step, some sort of proximity mic that simply links with current cell phone services like phone / net / walky-talky / voice-IM.
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They should integrate it with this for a really cool bit of technology.
Saying Apple is better than MS is like saying Botulism is better than rabies.
In this story from last month's issue, Fast Company talks about VOIP tech and specifically these communicators being used at a hospital.
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This looks like every nerds dream, but i dont see it being usefull in place of cellphones. There are too many problems that can't realy be avoided, the scalabilty problem mentioned before, and the complete lack of privacy. more likely, it will endup finding use in exactly the same situation it was designed for - a 2-way radio for co-workers. I use a 2-way radio on my job, and this would be the ideal technology for us. in any case, this is damn cool
Oh great, I can just see this at the hospital
*beep* Doctor Smith, this is the Lab, Mrs. Thompson's results came back positive for chlamydia.
I'd be more impressed with a belt-pack which communicated with a small earbud via bluetooth or similar.
Article also mentions paging for an anesthesiologist and getting the closest one. I wonder if they do that based on the AP, or if they have plans to add a GPS receiver. Considering the amount of interference in a hospital, I can't see GPS working.
Lang says. "At one point we had nothing more than a bunch of PowerPoint slides, that we showed to health care organizations, and we had nurses in tears saying 'Where has this been all of my life?' "
If this is not an exaggeration, as in proverbial tears, I find it hard to believe. It takes a lot to make a nurse cry -- think about all the unbelievable things they see on a daily basis. No doubt it will make their jobs easier, but bring them to tears -- I highly doubt it.
On a more serious note, the badge, if you stick on your breast pocket, will have one heck of a time picking up your voice, especially in a noisy enviroment. Otherwise you will have to bow your head and pull your shirt up. Looks quite odd.
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Does anyone have any idea what these little gizmos cost? Vocera seems to be one of those mysteriously vague businesses who want their "partners" to push "solutions" rather than slapping on a price tag and raking in the bucks.
I use my hands free kit now. I touch the button on the ear piece, speak the name of the person I wish to call and voila, I'm one of the teaming masses walking around looking like I'm talking to myself. So ok, this is located on the shirt ala ST and uses the PTT model, ho hum.
What I want is a blue tooth hands free kit that's small and comfortable enough to keep in your ear (and doesn't make you look like a 'tard, figuratively and literally) that has a very easy way to dock it seamlessly into your phone.
Now if die-hard Trekkie geeks can get something that simulates Nurse Chapel, life will finally be complete.
"You, you must be almost 30... have you ever kissed a gir?!?" - William Shatner, SNL
The title should be updated. A Trekkie communicator brings to mind Captain Kirk flipping open a palm-held device. A Trekker communicator indicates a lappel-pinned badge. Please be more diligent when posts involve Star Trek sub-cultures.
... now, should I post this anonymously, or openly attach my geek-code
If only we Trekkies had someone to talk to...
... I dunno why this has triggered so many bathroom jokes .. And no .. there's no hidden camera pointed at you while you take a dump .. (or is it?).
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It was to show the irony that Bart did not respect Homer, while at the same time idolizing Krusty (essentially the same person).
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I can't even sit at my desk for two minutes straight without a user bothering me for something, even though they've been told time and again that the proper channel for non-emergencies is email (for me, at least). I think that phone calls and unannounced visits are the all-time biggest productivity-busters in existence. I think a communicator-style device would suck. I had a fleet of 70 Nextels for my users originally, but when you can't even escape the direct-connects when you're trying to concentrate, you soon realize how harmful they are to productivity.
"Worf, how many times do I have to tell you "Hailing Frequencies Open" and "Fire Photon Torpedos" are NOT the same thing!"
There is something to be said for a little piece of plastic held up to the ear . . .
I can see this company doing a couple of things different with this device. One, use a different protocol for transmission of the signal. I work in a office where our sales reps are always out when you need them to be here to answer questions. If this device had a hard set IP address, that is routeable, at least if the sales rep was near a hot spot, you could get ahold of them. Also, it would be nice to see some better design with this device. It's isn't huge or anything, but it needs to be stylish, something that this model does lack. Also the ability to encrypt any communication just in case you don't want evesdroppers and script kiddies sniffing your network or hearing what's going on.
Personally, I would like to see a earbud or something, just in case you wife calls you and wants to talk about what she want to do to you when you come home.
eh, this sucks, I am going back to bed....
You don't even need a boom mic. I've got a Jabra ear piece that doesn't need a boom. The nice trick would be a keyword that would facilitate activation of the comm link. Voice activation for all functions. The biggest problem with making it an entirely in-the-ear unit would be radiation from the antenna being that close to your melon.
In a few years to integrate GPS and be able to say "Computer, locate CmdrTaco". Or how about Google's former voice search?
Google's CTO Craig Silverstein has already said his grand vision for google in the future would be something along the lines of When search grows up, it will look like Star Trek: you talk into the air ("Computer! What's the situation down on the planet?") and the computer processes your question, figures out its context, figures out what response you're looking for, searches a giant database in who-knows-how-many languages, translates/analyses/summarises all the results, and presents them back to you in a pleasant voice.
With a few more technologies like this, it's only inevitable this WILL happen.
beep. was that my cellphone? or...my email?..or IM?..or my cellphone walkie-talkie? or my pager?.or my badge?
At least this is an ST technology that works. Once on the set of the original Trek in 1967, an executive for a tech company saw the automatic doors. You just walk up to them and *whoosh* they open. No big sensor doormat, no nothing. He offered a million dollars for the technology.
The "technology" turned out to be two stagehands who yanked them open JIT.
That's what IPv6 is for!
Check out push to talk.
I agree that the communicator style won't (or shouldn't, imho) bode well for public communication.
From the hardwired rotary of the past to the 24th century communicator, we're evolving from both sides into something ~almost, but not quite entirely~ like the phones we have today. You're suggesting a small phone with voice dialing almost perfectly.
I remember an Apple Quadra commercial from 1990 or 91 where a little kid says, 'Computer, call Grandma.' The only different thing 14 years later is the form factor.
We mentioned these in 2002.
And you will again in 2005.
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i've decided, after reading several other unrelated stories here on slashdot, that this sort of thing doesn't go far enough.
want something really badass? combine these communicators with the "campus ghosts" concept. throw in a gps. tie it all back in to a huge server farm in the bowels of some university.
now you can smack your communicator and address the computer (with it's awexome speech recognition capabilities and limited AI) directly, and ask it for directions; or maybe just what's on the menu at the cafe, or if there are any books left in a particular subject at the bookstore.
you could smack it up and set it to "record mode" so that it picked up your professor's lecture, and then later you could grep through it verbally, or have the text or audio file uploaded to your desktop. set reminders on the thing, ask it for definitions of words or have it call off a formula to you, or send the text to your pda.
hell, you could even ask it for a weather report or world news.
of course, this is largely based on "Prime Intellect" from the online novel of the same name - uh . . . only, without all the reality warping and stuff.
i'm just sayin . . . hurry up with the future. i need a little electronic elf to keep up with my crap and make sure i don't kill myself in some dumbass fashion.
** Chigusaaa!!! You're the coolest girl in the WORLD!!! **
Right could you imagine it.
*Taps badge* "Scotty the shredder is full!"
Though if you were running alerting sofware it would be easy to incorporate this into your system.
Imagine if you could recieve a "comm" from your server telling you *Dave, my resources are getting low.*
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
They used to have walkie-talkie-based Trek badges. The downside was that they were about 10 times heavier and about 5 larger (volumewise) than the TV series ones. They would sag your shirt. But, being first does not always mean being best.
Table-ized A.I.
No built in camera or ogg support.
If they mix this communicator with the thing NASA is inventing "To Hear Words Not Yet Spoken" so u'll have a very comfortable cellphone with cheap service that you can actually use with your mind. No more complaints about the "guy with the cellphone". Imagine the military and espionage uses for that kind of technology...
and you have instal communication to people by just thinking about calling them.
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
my start trek wishlist:
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1) Faster than light travel
2) Shuttles that levitate
3) Replicators
4) Teleportation
9,472,381,478,471,832,741,592,158) Communicators
They never seemed to have a problem with ditching their badges whenever they needed to be sneaky. The other night, they had two episodes of TNG in a row where they did that (the one with alissa milano as wesley's girlfriend with that video game thing, and the one where the 'ghosts of the essex' take over troi and worf's bodies.) doing some subterfuge? just ditch your badge in the turbolift...
I always wanted to say, "Open channel D," into my fountain pen.
What Star Trek doesn't show you, is the many hours each day that the Ship's Counselor has to spend working with the comm. system just to get it to want to work. Apparently the system suffers some of sort of depression. I don't understand it.
Comedy...it's not so easy, is it?
And when one of these badges freezes up, you can reset it by tapping the button twice and shouting "REBOOT!"
I remember that commerical, and I remember the first time I saw it I laughed so hard I fell out of my chair.
I remember thinking how unrealistic that was... imagine all the things we think are unrealistic at this point becoming reality in the future.
"Computer, Beam me to Grandmas"
-Adam C. Greenfield
Because the telekinesis was a side effect of some chemical in the foods the people ate. Since normal food on Enterprise didn't have the chemical it eventually worked its way through their bodies, leaving them non-telekinetic.
I/O, I/O, its off to disk I go, with a read and a write, and a bit and a byte, I/O, I/O, I/O, I/O
Now what would be really sweet is to combine this with NASA's sub vocalization technology.
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Welcome to the 21st century baby.
From the article: "Once we had a prototype, we started doing research into who might want to use a product like this,"
So you thought up a "cool" idea, spent a bunch of dollars making it work and then went looking for someone that would find it useful? Good plan.
By unrealistic, I hope you mean 'unreal' or fantastic because it actually was possible. It took a little more than AppleScript, though, and Apple took a little flack for that.
Translation:
[CEO] managers come in...
[managers] here boss...
[CEO] we're losing sales this quarter on the Pharcock Needletit account. Terminate all non essential peeons in braches 5-7.
[managers] (to braches 5-7) You guys heard the boss now get going, haul ass pack your shit.
[CEO] One last thing, hows my hair?
[managers] (in a resounding chorus) great boss!
And then we will be done.
...is this going to get left on accidentally. People will be getting fired left and right.
Or will people learn real quickly not to say "stupid (*&*(&" as soon as they hang up the phone.
If moderation could change anything, it would be illegal.
"It that ends up the case, I'm sure we will all be sitting around telling people how we remember the good old days when you could actually hear yourself think in a public place."
Can you hear yourself think now? good
what is the range don't forget that they work from the surface of a planet to orbit. And even from inside said planet to orbit.
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Who cares about a stupid badge communicator? WHERE THE HELL ARE OUR PHASERS GODDAMMIT!!! Looks like the research community needs to focus on the important things.
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> I always wanted to say, "Open channel D,"
> into my fountain pen.
I'm sorry, but exactly what is stopping you?
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"One study by the First Consulting Group, a healthcare consultancy based in Long Beach, Calif., found that when the 300-bed St. Agnes Healthcare facility in Baltimore deployed the Vocera system, its nurses saved more than 1,100 hours a year, while the entire organization saved some 3,400 hours."
They only have three nurses?
Ha! When these come in, my call name's going to be "Supreme Commander of the Universe."
"Butthead to Supreme Commander of the Universe, it's not funny anymore, change my name back."
"Derp de derp."
He's got 5 for that!
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there is an other way...
"The "telephone tooth" would place a small device in a person's back molar that includes a wireless, low-frequency receiver and a gadget that turns audio signals into mechanical vibrations, which would pass from the tooth directly to the inner ear as clear sounds. "
What about a locate feature? that can't be hard to add and would be really useful.
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
Can it be a Universal Translator? Take the doctor jargon/nerd stuff and translate it to newbie talk.
Hmmm. I wonder if there was a species of "newbies" in the Star Trek episodes... sound familiar. I think it was the Newbian race.
If you were wasting time on /. as early as I was this morning you'd know they just have one of these on every starship too.
I wonder if it was extra or just standard equipment by then.
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My cellphone can be used a bit like an ST:TOS communicator - flip the keyboard up so it's angled at 45 degrees, and hit 'Speaker' after dialling the number. It also has voice tags so you can voice dial for the full effect. Nokia 6820.
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I didn't think that it actually necessary to add, "and have it do it."
I imagine this is only a hardware revision away.
In Soviet Russia, the Communicator talks to YOU!
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I doubt these things can be used from orbit... or 1/2 way across the solar system...:)
But perhaps down to the corner donut shop...
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that's the babel fish.
I know that they price the entire solution for a company rather than sell out individual devices, but damn do I hate it when you can't even get a ballpark idea how much something costs. When a company does this, it just feels like it's going to cost "too much" even if it's not!
Jared
Now there's a show I'd like to see in a DVD boxed set.
OTOH, after watching a few of them again this many years later, I might come to regret the purchase.
-- Alastair
I'm not sure this technology is ready for the enterprise.
Oh, hang on...
I don't know how healthy it is to have one of these things on your chest, centimeters away from your heart and other major vessels.
We need to know the long-term health implications of all these devices, not to mention computer monitors, cell phones, etc.
I can just see it now...
Hi John, this is Kitchens Direct, your postcode has just been selected to win a free....
Argh!
My what a big link you have!
There are 3 people with my name at my current organisation and I get much of their internal mail.
People simply can't be bothered finding the correct person, so I know who's getting fired next month, the margin (spectacular) on a bunch of our products and when the new one hits the market.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
That would be the magic of the marketing machines. Editing OUT the delays, and power cycles, and everything else the creates adverse performance. Of course the 23rd century looks so wonderful, they never show the bad side of it... Just imagine watching the raw footage of Picard having to reboot his communicator... LOL - Auger
"Computer, locate Dr. Vidal!"
Dr. Vidal is taking a dump in the third floor men's lavatory.
--Rob
Towards the Singularity.
Or when the number of channels are high enough "Connect to DD."(double D) That would be my favorite channel.
Imagine trying to contact an employee named, oh... let's say Carl Fermat.
* squiggly lines dissolve into dream sequence *
EMPLOYEE: *touches communicator button, then speaks* "FermatC"
COMM SYSTEM: ahh..%&^%()_*##@@NO CARRIER
...this planet sucks.
...now beam up my clothes.
It's 4 A.M. and you're soundly asleep in bed. Then, POW!, all of a sudden you bolt straight up as your boss starts yelling gibberish at you from somewhere deep in the base of your skull. Ah, the future is just ducky, ain't it?
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Well first the person has to say "Data to Cmdr
Worf". Now the processing of this command probaly
takes a billionth of a ms, but it then has to
play back the "Data to Cmdr Worf" message.
*That's* where the delay comes in, and why this
system can't be instant if it's set up in
this manner.
Star Trek style communicators. The whole touching the badge thing really does not do it for me.
/. that works somewhere that could at least float this idea. --do it!
Mix in the little connecting sound with the rough ability to recognize voice input and I'm sure you would have something people would love to buy. I know I would buy one. (Not really a trekkie, but I have always liked the show.) Seems to me the real trekkies would be all over something like that.
Paramount could benefit as well. Licensing the product likeness along with cool trek ring tones and such would be no brainer value adds. Just another way to continue to milk the Trek franchise that I would actually appreciate.
C'mon, there is somebody that reads
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Does anybody know where good replicas can be purchased? As a kid, I had a model that was pretty cool that got lost somehow. Have always wanted another one for a cool desk toy.
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get a job here??? I don't even care what they make me do, or if they pay me.
Just saw another story on Slashdot earlier that'd be relevant: NASA Develops Tech To Hear Words Not Yet Spoken. Just combine the two, and you get a telepathic device!
I suppose first.last doesn't have a memory, or the sense to understand the word traditional.
Old phones just had "PRS" on the 7 key, and "WXY" on the 9. After a while, they added Q and Z to the number 1, and then seem to have changed their minds for cellphones.
The devices are very cool. You sign in with your voice (the system stores a voice print that authenticates you). It knows who else is logged in to the system and can locate them if you assign locations to the AP's (big brother calling). It also ties in to your pbx system so you can dial the phone,"call 222-222-1342". Has a series of voice commands-voice recognition. You can setup groups and do group calls. A hospital is using it for paging/communications system in house. Devices are small and can be clipped on or hung on your neck with a lanyard. Can be used by multiple people. If the battery runs low, you sign off, drop the old one back in the charger. Pick up a new one and sign in and off you go. You can set it to "not disturb" you. And it tells you who is calling first (screen those calls) before you answer. Much more intelligence built into the server, this device has great potential... Now to program them to order chinese food for me automatically....
Slashdot comes with the questions. Slashdot comes with the answers. Just look a few articles down. They're using NASA's technology to hear unspoken words. You jus had to scroll a few articles down to get the answer.
I had the chance to use these and evaluate rolling them out on a large scale. They are excelent little devices. Most of the innovation here is in the software, the keys are in the voice recognition and badge tracking. For the most part the system was very well thought out.
I've read a couple of post saying (probably joking) that they want all sorts of features in the badges, bluetooth, linux, etc. No, No, they've got it all wrong and vocera got it right, the badges are as simple and cheap as can be, they only have 3 buttons, and a simple LCD display. So all the battery life can be spent on the WIFI.
There is a regular headphone/mic jack on the badges.
The units work very well, and the feature of auto-forwarding to cell phones is great.
The management software is all written in Java, and changes quite often, as this is all coming from small company and bugs are fixed and features added all the time.
"little internal communication system that they have working at their office that functions like the badge communicators from ST:TNG."
The communicators in Star Trek can reach across interplanetary distances and don't even have to worry about line-of-sight. These things probably won't work more than 500 yards off of the interstate.
A lot of people seem to be complaining about the idea of having a bunch of people walking around essentially on speaker phone.... but so what ? What is it when your walking around with your buddies ? Its not like we all walk around using sign language or anything.
To me the annoying thing with a cell phone is a one sided conversation.. you know the guy standing in the middle of the isle at the grocery store talking to no one... but if your hearing a tiny little speaker voice it should be more natural than just hearing one side. After all we are very accustomed to hearing two+ sided conversations going on around us... one sided conversations stand out because they have a very different cadence due to the constant long breaks while the other person is talking.
past that as far as the annoyance of having conversations in places where they should not be had ( MOVIES !!!! ) goes, it will not matter how many sides of the conversation you hear because they will always be annoying.
I don't ask you to be me. I only ask you not expect me to be you.
Or maybe he's not from the US?
I'm not from the US, but I can still remember such phones.
TOS: During a space (ion?) storm Kirk, Uhura, Scotty (and Checkov?) are beamed to the ISS Enterprise in the Mirror Universe. Conversely, Mirror Kirk, Mirror Scotty and Mirror Uhura are brought to our reality. Much fun ensues.
;)
Oh yeah, in the Mirror Universe, you get to see Spock's Beard.
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Huh?
It'd be cool if the system was set up such that you can ask it where someone is, and have them located via GPS on the badge.
Picard: "Computer, where is Commander Laforge?"
Computer: "Commander Laforge is in the 10 Forward restroom, Stall 3."
wbs.
Huh?
Am I just paranoid, or is it a bad idea to have a wireless card transmiting that close to your heart?
their little internal communication system that they have working at their office that functions like the badge communicators from ST:TNG
Those were the communicators that you sometimes had to tap to talk, and sometimes didn't, right?
Boy oh boy this is going to get people into trouble...
The Right Reverend K. Reid Wightman,
I wonder whether anyone has modded a a cellphone with voice-recognition into a 1967-style ST communicator. Seems to me that it would be easy to do, especially the part where you flop open the mesh cover to the tune of that neat cicada sound...
5 seconds would be more than enough for "[any conceivable name] to [any conceivable name]
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I think we're going to need the cone of silence with all these people whacking and yacking.
Whups! So now you admit you're pretty low on the reading comprehension scale too.
Here:
You try spending a few centuries getting only wrong number calls
Understand yet? Moron.