If You Could Control Anything Via the Internet …
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I’ve long pondered this question: If you could control anything via the Internet, what would it be?
Over the years, I’ve come up with lots of crazy ideas, like RFID tagged socks (August ‘04) and net-controlled hot tubs. And I’ve stumbled into plenty of others, like the Proliphix Internet-controlled programmable thermostat.
Sometimes it seems like half of the crazy ideas aren’t so crazy … to the point that someone’s already doing it, somewhere …
If you could control anything (other than an ATM) over the Internet, what would it be?
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Donald Nagy
April 15th, 2008
at 2:47pm
Our company IS running stuff in clinical Labs through the internet.
We have chose SL (Second Life) as a software platform, the Clinical labs
are a copy on the SL site. As the techs move thru the lab - the SL is updated with the avatars going to the new positions within 4 seconds latent time. We also have h-Robots (www.h-Robot.com) operated thru
the SL by using the v-Robot and positioning it in the VR (virtual Reality)
scene. The h-Robot is moved to the new location in the RL (Real Life)
lab. The person thru his avatar can load and unload diagnostic units
by manipulating the h-Robots.
Donald Nagy
April 22nd, 2008
at 6:55am
This h-Robot is controlled thru the Internet to be used in the clinical labs first and for Remote Control for eldercare applications where it will be feeding and be a servant to the elderly.
Keep up the good work. Us guys in engineering read your articles faithfully.
Don :-)