Re: personality transmitters

Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Sun, 17 Aug 1997 20:11:45 +0200 (MET DST)


On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Philip Witham wrote:

> > > The more I thought about this the more I liked the idea, so I've
> > > come up with the idea of "Personality Transmitters". Basically it
> Other functions for these were discussed at the X3 conference:
> A stored facial snapshot of yourself to help with name recognition, after
> a conference, you could dump out a set of prints for everyone you met,
> with pertinent data.
>
> Sounds like a EEPROM or flash ROM, a wimpy microcontroller, a simple
> tranceiver, a lithium coin cell. Simple software. Who needs Xerox parc?

Sounds like a simple app for a wearable. Can use IrDA for transport layer.