Daily Giz Wiz 120: 3COM Audrey
Episode 120 of the podcast
| Subject: | Review of 3COM Audrey |
| Released: | Friday 4 August 2006 |
| Length: | about 10 minutes |
| Download file: | dgw0120.mp3 (4.8 MB) |
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Short info
From Dick's Gadget Warehouse: The Audrey, 3Com's wired appliance for those “who didn’t want a complicated computer.” Apparently no one wanted the Audrey either.
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Detailed information
Link: Logitech
Link: IdeoThe 3Com Audrey was an internet-enabled appliance for the kitchen introduced in 2000, for email and web-surfing, for those who didn't want a complicated computer. It came with a wireless keyboard. You could also write a message with a stylus on the touch screen and send the handwritten note as a .gif attachment. There was also a built-in microphone so you could record a message up to three minutes long and then send as a wav file.
It all sounded a bit too complicated for people who found computers too complicated. It didn't take off (the cost was $499 for a start, and an ethernet adapter for broadband was an extra option), but there's a still a hacking site dedicated to it, at audreyhacking.com.
Gadget-year
Dick and Leo come up with a new time unit for gadgets. 1 gadget-year is worth 25 human-years.
(source: insidedgw.vox.com)
