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Schaller: The long journey towards good free video conferencingSchaller: The long journey towards good free video conferencingPosted Oct 16, 2012 23:51 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: Schaller: The long journey towards good free video conferencing by Cyberax Parent article: Schaller: The long journey towards good free video conferencing
sure, then you have a party and a guest bumps up against the fridge with a phone in their pocket (or backpack) and now your fridge in connected to their network.
even assuming that someone takes the time to engineer your solution, and all the different manufacturers manage to agree on a common spec for how it would work, and going even further, manage to implement it in a compatible way.
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Schaller: The long journey towards good free video conferencing Posted Oct 17, 2012 0:20 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
You'll need to add some interaction, like a simple "Confirm" button on fridge's touchscreen.
And most of components are already here. NFC is available on most phones and NFC readers are dirt-cheap.
Schaller: The long journey towards good free video conferencing Posted Oct 17, 2012 0:22 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
> NFC is available on most phones
with the notable exception of Apple devices. how many companies are going to make a fridge that cannot be configured by any Apple customers?
Schaller: The long journey towards good free video conferencing Posted Oct 17, 2012 0:28 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
You assume that it's a permanent situation. iPhones will probably get NFC as soon as Apple feels like inventing it.
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