From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Mon Dec 20 1999 - 23:01:55 MST
Michael M. Butler writes:
> The Aetherwire folks are working on ultrawideband pulse gizmos to do local
Digital pulse radio, ja? (I've become somewhat wary of time-domain &
consorts, since they so far don't deliver on their pretty grand claims)
Aetherwire? URL?
> positioning to centimeter accuracy at kilometer range, but not using cells.
Not using cells? How so? Launching new infrastructure into space? Even
if you don't pack Rb/Cs clocks into them and make them suitcase-sized
sats, that is going to be expensive. Of course one can combine that
with Teledesic etc., but I doubt anybody thinks as far ahead.
> One could easily imagine a cell-to-aetherwire relay/reporter/gateway with
> differential GPS self location that might not require any cooperation from
> the cell provider.
Once we have realtime cm resolution everywhere, autonomous robots are
going to get quite frisky. Beats machine vision/map construction every
time....
> MMB
>
> PS: if you can patent gizmos that run off muscles even though the
> technology/power budget isn't viable today, that's one more sign of how
> broken even the physical-artifact patent system is...
Yeah, patents are quite ridiculous.
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