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YOUR HOME
Home buyers can now move
into a clean, spacious…
computing device. We’ re
working with partners in the
home construction i n d u s t r y
and with Bell Atlantic in the
United States to deliver
I B M Home Dire c t o r, which
integrates everything fro m
I n t e rnet access to control
of security and lighting
systems, heating and air
c o n d i t i o n i n g – all from any
P C or TV s c re e n .
YOUR GROCERIES
Even the weekly ritual of
g rocery shopping is being
transformed. Safeway UK
and IBM are piloting hand-
held devices that let shoppers
make up grocery lists and
submit the order from home.
The supermarket fills the
order and has it ready for
pick-up. Or shoppers can
cruise store aisles scanning
groceries and tracking
their total. Customers like
the convenience. The super-
market likes the fact that
high-spending families are
doing more of their shopping
with Safeway.
YOUR PACKAGE
To d a y, you can track the
status of any overn i g h t
package from depot to
depot. To m o r ro w, parc e l s
with embedded computing
and communications
capability might be tracked
mile by mile, street by stre e t
and block by block, until they
reach your door – and you.
YOUR CAR
We ’ re working with
automakers to pro t o t y p e
w i reless links from the car
to the Net, combined with
IBM voice technology to
give drivers e-mail (voice-
activated), driving dire c t i o n s
and updates on road condi-
tions. Onboard sensors
would alert drivers – and
the nearest service center –
if a problem were bre w i n g .
And imagine the benefits
to automakers when these
links beam continuous
information on engine
performance directly to
manufacturing and
p roduct development.
Imagine intelligent vending machines sending regional distribution
centers reports on what kind of soda is selling, what’s not, even the
optimal time to send a route driver to empty the coin box.