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Thread #59418 Message #2165866
Posted By: Amos
07-Oct-07 - 12:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
The New Scientist reports on our brave new world redux:
"You arrive home from work, drop your mobile phone, MP3 player and camera on the kitchen table and pour yourself a well-earned drink. Immediately, the music on your MP3 player begins blaring from your hi-fi, photos start downloading to your PC and texts and emails start flashing up on your TV screen.
What's going on? The phone, MP3 player and camera are sending information to the table, which passes it to the walls, which in turn route it to the hi-fi, television and PC.
Takao Someya, Tsuyoshi Sekitani and colleagues at the University of Tokyo, Japan, have developed a flexible, plastic electronic sheet that can be embedded in tables, walls and floors. Plastic transistors and copper wires that snake through the sheets allow gadgets placed on them to form spontaneous connections and swap data."
Oh, tempora, oh, mores. This is an ideal scenario?
Or, as the restaurant critic said trying the experimental new Japanese-American seafood restaurant for the first time, "Oh, tempuri! Oh, moray!".
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