RE: Re: Micromodules....

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

if you remembered to tie the string...... ;)

This is one of those areas of home auto which I like.. it's taking an
area
where humans are notoriously bad (like remembering things like a switched
on
coffee pot or iron for instance)
and "helping out" it's not trying to reinvent the wheel, just
augmenting one
litle bit of the process to help out..

IMO this is like having the car lights come on and off with the doors
opening, then moving onto doing it from the keyfob/timed... more
functionality which helps out :)

Ian.

-----Original Message-----
From: andy_powell_is [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 01 May 2002 15:52
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Micromodules....



Tie a piece of string to the iron at one end and your foot at the
other... you'd only walk away once :P

Andy

--- In ukha_d@y..., Scott Crowther <scrowther@i...> wrote:
> take it one step further and put a motion sensor in the iron
> so when its been stationary and horizontal for a fixed period
> (say 20secs) it automatically powers off.
>
> press a switch to reset.
>
> that way it'll stop house fires if you leave the iron in a
horizontal
> position on your ironing board...
>
>
>
> Scott Crowther
> Intamac Systems Ltd
>
> t: +44 (0)1604 679262
> e. scrowther@xxxxxxx
> w. www.intamac.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@w...]
> Sent: 01 May 2002 15:32
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Micromodules....
>
>
> It's a safety thing Andy. I had a situation where friends over for
the
> evening would leave the coffee maker on, and if we had a few too
many
> glasses of wine, we came downstairs in the morning to the smell of
hideously
> burnt coffee in a dried out pot..
>
> add an AM10, and force the unit off at 11pm, hey presto, no more
coffee
> disasters.
>
> I would love to have plugtop modules, and be able to flag certain
items as
> "heat safety" items, to be switched off after a certain
period.
what would
> be great was some sort of intelligent local control.. so, it
flashes the
> power light and beeps, or something, to show it's about to switch
off..
> press a button to cancel...
>
> that sort of thing ;)
>
> Ian.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Bovingdon [mailto:bov@t...]
> Sent: 01 May 2002 15:03
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Micromodules....
>
>
> > > When you use an AM12 for something portable like an hoover,
when
> > you've
> >
> > You ARE going to have a problem using any type of module with
a
> > hoover. A hoover WILL generate line noise and probably block
your
> > signal.
>
> What the hell are you going to do with a module on a vacuum
cleaner?
> Or an iron for that matter? Are you a compulsive cleaner and you
> need the computer to stop you once in a while?
>
>
>
>
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