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Comments on Siemens Communicator Badge: Trek-style Communicator
The device can be worn like a badge, or on a lanyard around your neck. Commands from the user are transmitted via Bluetooth to a central home communications server. The server uses proprietary voice recognition software to convert your voice commands (Read
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| "Captain Picard? (D'oh - thanks for telling me! - CT)" (Erc 3/17/2005 10:12:30 AM) |
| "Are people so lazy that they want complete control of their house with the touch of a button they carry? (Wait... yes they are)" ( 4/13/2005 1:44:51 PM) |
| "Fantastic, now if they can only devise the same technology in a pin mobile phone which you can wear around your neck or clip onto your clothing. pljames@brmemc.net" (pljames 7/4/2005 1:11:19 PM) |
| "When is this going to be available to the public, and how much will it cost" (Leon 11/3/2005 9:15:39 AM) |
| "who created the communicator badge? and when?" (. 11/22/2005 3:26:41 PM) |
| "The first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, on which communicator badges were used, was broadcast on June 29, 1989. Sorry, I should have included that." (Bill Christensen 11/22/2005 5:58:42 PM) |
| "Now we just need a bluetooth speaker for cell phones that can be pinned onto the shirt." ( 6/21/2009 6:44:27 AM) |
| "The Vocera communication badge http://www.vocera.com/products/b2000_badge.aspx, works just like the communicator. It even has any number of Trek easter eggs built right in. " (Vocera Communication Badge 4/21/2010 8:55:48 AM) |
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