[NCLUG] E-Ink Signs in Ft. Collins?

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:51:15AM -0600, marciot wrote:
>Oh, great. They come up with some cool new technology that could have a myriad 
>of socially-redeeming uses and the first they do with it is sell cigarettes.

The one we have in our house displays the time, date, and temperature.
It's wired via ethernet, then we can access it via the wireless laptops.
Not much need for the device itself to be wireless.  Then anybody with the
appropriate 802.11b sniffing gear could control what was displayed in our
home!  ;-)

Having a net connected, programmable display with 2" letters can be very
nifty.  Particularly as it automatically corrects for DST, and synchronizes
time with NIST.

We got my grandmother one of those wall clocks that reads time via WWVB,
and after it synched up, we help it up against our display and watched them
both change minutes at exactly the same time.  ;-)

I must say, I totally love those WWVB synchronized clocks.  Having to not
worry about setting the time for DST and just synchronizing is great.
Also, the first one we got has a really nice "progressive" alarm for
waking you up.  Starts soft and gets more insistent.

Good technology -- I approve.

Sean
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