Talking about
ubiquitous computing I stumbled across a
BBC article on
Oliver MacCarthy's final year
design project at
Brunel University, the "intelligent" clothes peg...
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| The intelligent clothes pegs will predict the weather and lock themselves shut when they forecast rain, stopping you hanging your washing on the line just before the sky opens up... |
It's one of those things that will just never take off, for blatantly obvious reasons like the
cost-benefit analysis, but it's something that definitely appeals to the
geek in me...
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