10 Dec
1998
10 Dec
'98
8:34 a.m.
At 12:54 PM 12/10/98 -0800, Chuck McManis wrote:
Lots of people in the states sell them, its called the
"Actimates" Barney.
As I understood it the toy "saw" signals in the form of IR coded pulses in
the video and responded appropriately.
<http://microsoft.com./products/hardware/actimates/tv/default.htm>
says it's a radio transmitter. I don't know how you'd reliably
transmit IR from a TV screen.
Brightness, maybe, like a DataLink watch. Come to think of it, the
first "dildonics" product for the web works like that: a little sensor
suction-cupped to the screen modulated a vibrator.
But really, I try to keep this on-topic for the CCC ML. :-)
- John