Microwaves and refrigerators already have ip addresses. Especially useful for physically challenged people. Right now quite expensive but available for purchase everywhere.
The refrigerators contact local grocery store when items like milk or eggs go bad and grocery store will deliver. On Mar 16, 2011 8:08 AM, "Dan Carpenter" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:03:19AM +0300, Mwirima Byaruhanga wrote: >> Now, give me 3 *serious* use cases for an IP-enabled microwave. > > At an office, it would take a picture of the person using the microwave > when they hit "start". Then it would take a picture of the microwave > after the food was done heating. > > It would upload the pictures to the cloud for image analysis. If the > microwave wasn't clean, then the cloud-ware would email the pictures to > your co-workers. > > regards, > dan carpenter > > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
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