Re: Networked refrigerators (was Re: [Nolug] Vint Cerf talk (my notes from his talk at LSU))

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:

> How would it look inside the egg carton to count the eggs?

Lots of fridge's have built-in egg holders... maybe there is a sensor in
each one that detects if an egg is there or not.

> Some plastic milk jugs are translucent, some are opaque. And then
> there are the thick paper milk cartons.

Perhaps it has 3d optical scanners on all sides to take inventory of
what's there, and using optical recognition can tell what it is. Even
today's optical recognition can tell the difference between a gallon of
milk, a 2-liter coke, or an apple. Based on where it is, the fridge can
weigh the object to see how much milk is left in the carton.

And that's only the first thing i thought of... I totally agree with
Dustin. We shouldn't limit our ideas of what might happen in the future
based on our extremely limited knowledge of how things work today... :)

ray

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Ray DeJean  				       	 http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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