William Loughborough : Yet Another Epiphany!
Yet Another Epiphany!
So there is now a head-mounted, hands-free cell phone with a built-in Talking Signs (Remote Infrared Audible Signage) receiver that includes the capability of decoding the code signal from any type 3 Talking Signs transmitter.
The code is just a string of numbers but of course since each transmitter's code is unique, it is in effect a URI.
I haven't seen it yet but I've been assured that it's a working production prototype. This might give Japan, Inc. a huge lead in the next generation of phones although of course the Signs receiver will only be of use when lots of transmitters are in place. Then we have location-based Web services to a fare-thee-well.
I go to San Francisco tomorrow for a couple days and am highly optimistic. This is nearly the last act in my 3 decade dream play.
On the other hand I still am running out of breath a lot lately, but it doesn't seem to be particularly dangerous. I just hope I can make the trip in some comfort. I know I won't be able to walk around the city much any more.
Love.
So there is now a head-mounted, hands-free cell phone with a built-in Talking Signs (Remote Infrared Audible Signage) receiver that includes the capability of decoding the code signal from any type 3 Talking Signs transmitter.
The code is just a string of numbers but of course since each transmitter's code is unique, it is in effect a URI.
I haven't seen it yet but I've been assured that it's a working production prototype. This might give Japan, Inc. a huge lead in the next generation of phones although of course the Signs receiver will only be of use when lots of transmitters are in place. Then we have location-based Web services to a fare-thee-well.
I go to San Francisco tomorrow for a couple days and am highly optimistic. This is nearly the last act in my 3 decade dream play.
On the other hand I still am running out of breath a lot lately, but it doesn't seem to be particularly dangerous. I just hope I can make the trip in some comfort. I know I won't be able to walk around the city much any more.
Love.
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Seth says
One wonders ...
.. since GPS is so expensive (hardware wise) these days, would it not be an incentive for people to install talking signs as a kind of distrubuted GPS. Then the URI from the sign could perhaps map at a server to a GPS uri and the sign owner has just provided the traveler with a geo position fix.
Now via a server or a p2p network, people can write messages at that location that should be visable on traveling devices correctly configured.
... just an

Now via a server or a p2p network, people can write messages at that location that should be visable on traveling devices correctly configured.
... just an

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