All in southern Chicago? How far apart? How long does it take for them to pop out of the machine, from completing the spec? It sounds to me as if they are assembled at the mentioned central location and sent to the vending machine via a pneumatic tube. The only unlikely part is that this wouldn't require anything like the bulk of three coke vending machines for the end user terminal.
Afetr all, with RFID tags pneumatic tubes get routing capability, as the destination of a shuttle can be read as the shuttle whizzes by. So it's perfectly easy to have a city wide pneumatic tube infrastructure. But it would have to be fast to be viable.
All's technically feasible. It's the humans that are the problem. Time to exterminate them.
Much more useful to me would be an instant audio alert on the holster if I move more than four feet from the thing (distance negotiable, but that seems about right). Losing it seems a far more likely scenario.
Sooner or later I'm going to put 10 cent RFID tags on just about everything I own. I want to be able to find things by running through the house with a scanner in one hand, and have it bleep when I come within three yards of the target. The first to be tagged will be several hundred feet of double stacked bookshelves. Pity it wouldn't work in the toolshed. Iron bad stuff in this context. Aluminium better.
Regards, Wieder den sinnen.
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All in southern Chicago? How far apart? How long does it take for them to pop out of the machine, from completing the spec? It sounds to me as if they are assembled at the mentioned central location and sent to the vending machine via a pneumatic tube. The only unlikely part is that this wouldn't require anything like the bulk of three coke vending machines for the end user terminal. Afetr all, with RFID tags pneumatic tubes get routing capability, as the destination of a shuttle can be read as the shuttle whizzes by. So it's perfectly easy to have a city wide pneumatic tube infrastructure. But it would have to be fast to be viable. All's technically feasible. It's the humans that are the problem. Time to exterminate them.
Much more useful to me would be an instant audio alert on the holster if I move more than four feet from the thing (distance negotiable, but that seems about right). Losing it seems a far more likely scenario. Sooner or later I'm going to put 10 cent RFID tags on just about everything I own. I want to be able to find things by running through the house with a scanner in one hand, and have it bleep when I come within three yards of the target. The first to be tagged will be several hundred feet of double stacked bookshelves. Pity it wouldn't work in the toolshed. Iron bad stuff in this context. Aluminium better. Regards, Wieder den sinnen.