South Korea's house of the future Even with the privacy fears,
the home-networking technology South Korea is promoting is hard to
resist, CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos says.
In a ubiquitous computing demonstration set up by South Korea's
Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC),
large-screen TVs served up virtual versions of the morning
newspaper. A system using radio frequency identification (RFID)
tags, meanwhile, tabulated grocery items in a cart and sent the
bill to a cell phone account.
In the wired car, a liquid-crystal display panel/computer in the
back seat could play music or video from a home hard drive, find
parking spaces, pay bridge tolls, or conduct a video conference
with people back at the office.
[via CNET News.com]