Date   : Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:10:49 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Viewdata (was Re: Where is everyone?)

You WHAT?!?!

--8<--------
In early 2011, Hugo Fiennes, CEO and co-founder of Electric Imp, was remodeling 
a bathroom in his home and wanted to add a strip of RGB lights under a cabinet 
to light the floor. His plan was to connect them to WiFi so they could display
all sorts of ambient information - the hourly weather forecast, daily calendar,
stock prices - all indicated with color changes along the strip that could
be seen at a glance.
--8<--------
[Electric Imp's About Us page]

Maybe I'm just "old" or something? For me, bath time is sacrosanct. No phones.
No media players. No nothing. Just me and maybe a candle. And some cherry/bamboo
smelly gunk.

I can't think of anything more ghastly than to have your own personal news
ticker thing in the bathroom. Kitchen, maybe. Bathroom, no.


Best wishes,

Rick.

Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Viewdata (was Re: Where is everyone?)
From: gARetH baBB <hick.bbc@...>
To: bbc-micro@...
CC: 

On Mon, 18 Aug 2014, Jess Rowbottom wrote:

> Do you know if Hugo might be willing to either part with the source, or 
> recompile it? I have no idea where he is now.

Well, he seems to have been working for Apple as the main man behind the 
hardware for the first 4 iphones - 
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/magazine/article1

He now seems to be http://electricimp.com/ , how quaint a closed-cloud 
based service - I suppose that's what rubs off on you when you work for 
Apple ...

altman@... probably still works, else get him via electricimp.

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