Wireless Glasses [Archive]

Nick Seidl

31-07-2003, 12:04

Someone at my office showed me this. Its a wireless glass that communicates with a station that allows servers in a restaurant or bar to monitor when someone needs a refill. I just thought it was an interseting use of technology.

http://www.merl.com/projects/iGlassware/ :yikes:

robot180

31-07-2003, 15:57

OK! Now I would like to know how you guys find all of this stuff. I mean, do you just go to every website and read everything? I have a friend that does that, well thats his job. He works for some agency in Wash. D.C. He sends an e-mail to a bunch of his friends once a week with like twenty links to funny articles and things like that. The links go to things that he found and thought were interesting or funny.

Tytus Gerrish

31-07-2003, 16:04

All rite! Finaly a technolgy that lets you get drunk faster and more efficently

RogerR

31-07-2003, 16:17

Originally posted by Tytus Gerrish
All rite! Finaly a technolgy that lets you get drunk faster and more efficently

well, then if thats the objective, then why not simplify?
just go dirctly from the tap to a customers' collective mouth via a hose.:p

Nick Seidl

31-07-2003, 16:25

Originally posted by robot180
OK! Now I would like to know how you guys find all of this stuff. I mean, do you just go to every website and read everything?

Naw, I have a co-worker that was visiting SlashDot and found that link.

Jonathan M.

31-07-2003, 19:39

The resturaunt biz is just getting lazy. :p

evulish

01-08-2003, 16:21

Lots of crazy stuff can be found on fark (http://www.fark.com).

Brandon Martus

01-08-2003, 16:34

Originally posted by evulish
Lots of crazy stuff can be found on fark (http://www.fark.com). As well as some questionable stuff... surfer beware.

Adam Y.

01-08-2003, 19:16

My mom was telling me about how Kelly Riper's kids was playing with the stuff in the minibar but they didn't eat it. All they did was move it. Aparently the minibar has sensors that knew when the stuff was moved and she got charged for all the stuff they did not eat. Another thing I found funny was the story of the poorly designed elevator. When a fire broke out in a stadium the fireman were perplexed at the fact that every few minutes a huge torrent of water would come down the escalators. As it turns out some person put sensors on the elevator so it came down whenever there were people nearby. The elevator would take the water on the first floor and take it up to the second because the sensors would trip from the water.

robot180

01-08-2003, 23:32

I just looked at that Fark.com website. It is really funny. I will take a look at that more often.