FYA ------- Forwarded message follows ------- ... E-BIZ TECH REVIEW: LIGHT STRIPS COMMUNICATE VIA INFRARED
Here's a fairly low-tech invention that I think may have some high-tech applications: Hokey Spokes. These are $24.99 illuminated plastic strips that clip onto the spokes of a bicycle wheel and flash colored patterns or text messages. The best part is that you can clip multiple strips onto more than one spoke. The maker claims that the devices then communicate with each other using infrared messaging to synchronize their designs and timing. If you can do all that, it seems to me there are a variety of more sophisticated applications for these things. Couldn't you program them to do "the wave" in, say, a football stadium -- without the fans in the bleachers actually moving? The uses are limited only by your imagination. HOKEY SPOKES LIGHT THE WAY AND DISPLAY TEXT MESSAGES: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/?7565 ... SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE/CHANGE E-MAIL To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your e-mail address for any of InfoWorld's e-mail newsletters, go to:http://www.iwsubscribe.com/newsletters/ ... ------- End of forwarded message ------- ------- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur ----------------- ,__@ Tom A. Trottier +1 613 860-6633 fax:231-6115 _-\_<, 758 Albert St.,Ottawa ON Canada K1R 7V8 (*)/'(*) ICQ:57647974 N45.412 W75.714 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Laws are the spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. --Solon, statesman (c.638-c558 BCE) ------ Club Office: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 230-1064 Web/mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cyberus.ca/~obcweb Newsletter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cyberus.ca/~obcweb/Newsletter ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiDo.a2i8p1 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
