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Newsgroups: alt.best.of.internet
Subject: Re: What is your favorite home automation ?
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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 14:59:58 GMT
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On 23 Jan 1997 15:04:45 GMT, seurer{at}nordruth.rchland.ibm.com (Bill
Seurer) wrote:

->In article , Dave Lambert
->  writes:
->|> Chuck Rice wrote:
->|> >
->|> >
->|> > In a few years, you sould be able to connect FireWire devices
->|> > using Cat 5. For your doorbell, this will give you a 100-200Mb/s
->|> > datapath that will carry 2 full motion video signals
->|> > inexpensively. For a dorebell, this means that you can put a
->|> > camera/monitor pair in the doorbell and screen visitors before
->|> > opening the door or use the same console to set all house
->|> > controls as you arrive home. See
->|> > http://www.adaptec.com/serialio/>
->|> > or scan your fav search site for "firewire" and
"IEEE 1394".
->|>
->|> You know... I'm not sure which is funnier: 1) someone actually
->|> thought about a 100Mbs doorbell or 2) that someone actually HAS a
->|> use for a 100Mbs doorbell...  Ain't technology wonderfull?
->
-> Yeah!
->
-> Actually, having a built-in fingerprint scanner would be cool too.
-> Just press the doorbell and the house knows who you are.  If it's
-> me, open the door.  If it's the UPS guy, tell him to hide the
-> package in the bushes.
-> If it's the tax assessor, turn on the sprinklers (hey, just
-> kidding!).


Cheers,
Gaelyne

... http://hal9000.net.au/~moranec
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