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...global fascination with mountaineering - fueled by news of the death of eight climbers on Everest on a single day in May 1996 - has fused with the broadcasting power of the Internet to bring the world of rock and ice into the living room, via the Web browser. When Simonson's party set off in 1999 to find the remains of Everest pioneers George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, and then found Mallory's body, the world learned about it online. The website (the now dot-bombed mountainzone.com) that hosted the dramatic pictures and first-person storytelling clocked more than 5 million...
...power generators. And a technology specialist: it's his job to handle video and stills editing and encoding with a Panasonic Toughbook (a bomb-resistant little unit with a waterproof keyboard, a magnesium-alloy case and a shock-mounted hard drive). When that's done, he transmits the content via the group's satellite phones to the website team in Seattle that posts it on the site. Going live would be possible, but with the time difference between Nepal and the U.S., the size of the audience wouldn't be worth the effort. Not that it's worth the effort...
...Victor uniform two mike Kilo Papa," Robert Kohli barks into a microphone, his voice spinning off into the ether via an amateur radio satellite 4,500 km up in the sky. He pauses to listen for incoming signals. He hears a crackle, then the voice of Charlie from Hong Kong: "You are strong as ever today...
...digital pen, or Chatpen, as Anoto has christened it, contains a tiny infrared camera that recognizes the patterns and essentially photographs, 100 times a second, the pen's interaction with the paper. In this way, it "reads" what's been written. The pen then processes and transmits this information, via a mobile phone or computer, to the Internet, where Anoto's servers help determine where to send...
...Smart objects are defined here as objects that can sense and react to the world around them and that can communicate with other smart objects via smart networks. A human is said to "own" a smart object upon purchase, except for those rights retained by the manufacturer and stated more or less clearly in the purchasing contract. Neither the owner nor manufacturer may be held responsible for smart objects that run amok without warning and no smart object can be disassembled without a lengthy trial with good lawyers on all sides...