I've been thinking for a while that Wii installations in gyms is a long-term goal. Exercise bikes linked via internet with other sites and with a data-logging components for people to track their workouts, performance, and progress is a natural extension. even if Nintendo doesn't do this in commerical installations, I am positive that they will do it for home use. I live in Japan and have a Wii Balance Board. Not only is it fun, but you do actually get a work-out. My wife and daughter are addicted to the yoga exercises and from what I hear, they have friends in the same boat. I'm sure that they would love to form an online community around this.
Implanting RFID into shoes has been an idea for a while. Because your shoes are always on the ground at regular intervals when moving, they are the best place to have a tag if the idea is to track someone. A sensor can easily be placed into a floor or under a carpet, and unless you are tracking Shaq, a 1m long sensor over the tracking path is more than enough to ensure that you log everybody going through.
Andir -- The rest of the world is not moving to Linux yet. Geeks, yes. Knowledgeable users, some. The general public, almost nobody. The whole WHS concept seems to be to make it easy enough for anyone to use, so there's your caveat: Linux is still way to hard for most people to get up and running, maintain, update, and use. I should know -- I just spent 4 hours this afternoon trying to get an Ubuntu Samba share to work across a wired/wireless network of OS X, Windows 2000, XP Home, and XP Pro machines at my house. It took an hour to get them all reading the share. It took another 3 hours to get everything but the Windows 2000 machine to write to the share. I'll deal with it again tomorrow if I get a chance, but it'll be a cold day in hell before I even think of suggesting anyone else in my family try it at their house.
Not necessarily true. What if the resources consumed to create the material are high and the lifetime of the material is short? Unless the total life cycle of the product results in a lower consumption of resources over its competitors the product is fun from a technology standpoint but has no place in general use.
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