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Trekkie Communicators Now a Reality

Posted by michael on from the scotty,-beam-down-some-more-red-shirts dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Yeah, by pilgrim23 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It will also give your co-ordinates so that The security officer can beam you right to Guantanamo Bay...

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  2. Um... no... by Guppy06 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "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.