Posted by ketyung
on Apr/19/2007
at 4:34 am
With Internet and WiFi technology, what you need is to exercise your brain more to produce useful gadgets that benefit from these two technologies. Some geeks are really brainy, they’ve now thought of a new way for feeding your fish, i.e via WiFi!
How? It’s simply by having a WiFi-enabled fish tank, which it lets you see and feed your fish, adjust the tank’s temperature as well as change the filter from afar. When you’re on vacation or even you’re in the office, as long as you have Internet access, you can anytime connect to your WiFi-enabled fish tank using your browser and start taking care of your lovely fishes by having few mouse clicks only.
In addition, you can also turn the lights on and off. This currently is one of those in the contest of the Embedded Systems Conference. I think we’ll see this fish tank in production run not far from now.
via [UberGizmo]
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April 21st, 2007 at 11:30 am
Very interesting post. Now we just need robot dog walkers & automatic cat litterbox cleaners. Wait, we already have those self cleaning litterboxes. Seriously though, as cool as some of the tech gadgets seem I worry about removing ourselves from the process of caring for things in a hands on way and relying on technology too much.
May 3rd, 2007 at 9:33 am
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January 30th, 2009 at 10:15 am
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