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  • From: MCW <mcw AT czeiszperger.org>
  • To: Ruth Suehle <wuzzled AT nc.rr.com>, "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] predictive grocery delivery systems. Was: GoogleResponds to Gmail Privacy Concerns
  • Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:47:33 -0400

On Monday 05 April 2004 11:37 am, Ruth Suehle wrote:
> > Several years ago there was a company, I think it was NCR but I can't
> > swear to it, that was developing a device that actually came pretty
> > close to your nacho replacement system. IIRC it was to be called the
> > Microwave Bank. It was in essence a microwave oven with a web interface
> > and a barcode reader.
>
> The Internet Refrigerator also went down this road.
>
> http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/living/home/home_improvement/int
>erior/appliances/4309426.htm
>
> Oh, but it also keeps track of the food you have stored inside and will
> alert you when something's about to spoil or when it's time to change the
> water filter.

I'm thinking that the automatic replacement of coke and potato chips would
not
be a good thing.

> ``Until now, the kitchen and home computer were kept in separate rooms in
> most households,'' says Simon Kang, president of LG Electronics, a
> 44-year-old Korean company that entered the U.S. market about three years
> ago.
>





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