RPG publishers are doing this at an alarming rate.
PDF publishing is popular not only with small houses, but with a couple established industry leaders (Monte Cook dual publishes his supplements for D&D).
There are several sites dedicated to selling these (I'm not going to pimp one here). But there is a battle between DRM and non-DRM now as a new site opened up recently with DRM.
There is some argument in the community about p2p distribution of these pdfs, because it is not legal. But people are not sure if it helps or hurts legitimate sales.
Anyway, it may be an interesting bell weather for other PDF publishers.
It is kinda cool to see them roaming around the building. They are used for delivery of medicine to different areas.
They are programmed with a floor plan of the hospital, but do some of their own pathfinding.
They have a little remote for opening doors and operating elevators. They can use 802.11b and other wireless for network. It is really a neat product, but in a way in its infancy.
Disclaimer:
I work for Cardinal Health and we do Automation and Information systems products including the robot in the above (Pyxis is a wholly owned subsidiary).
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RPG publishers are doing this at an alarming rate.
PDF publishing is popular not only with small houses, but with a couple established industry leaders (Monte Cook dual publishes his supplements for D&D).
There are several sites dedicated to selling these (I'm not going to pimp one here). But there is a battle between DRM and non-DRM now as a new site opened up recently with DRM.
There is some argument in the community about p2p distribution of these pdfs, because it is not legal. But people are not sure if it helps or hurts legitimate sales.
Anyway, it may be an interesting bell weather for other PDF publishers.
There are actually quite a few...
Here is one:
http://www.pyxis.com/products/helpmate.asp
It is kinda cool to see them roaming around the building. They are used for delivery of medicine to different areas.
They are programmed with a floor plan of the hospital, but do some of their own pathfinding.
They have a little remote for opening doors and operating elevators. They can use 802.11b and other wireless for network. It is really a neat product, but in a way in its infancy.
Disclaimer:
I work for Cardinal Health and we do Automation and Information systems products including the robot in the above (Pyxis is a wholly owned subsidiary).
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Nice! This is what I was thinking...
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