Nomadic Computing & Connectivity Resources for Technomads from Nomadic Research Labs. You may or may not remember the founder of Nomadic Labs, Steve Roberts, who travelled the country in a few homebrewed techno-recumbent bikes. For the past ten years or so he's been working on an aquatic version, the Microship. Some seriously interesting geek talk can be found on the System Infrastructure page. Here's an excerpt:

For BEHEMOTH, we developed an audio crossbar around the Mitel 8816 chip, vastly simplifying those spur-of-the moment connections that are irresistibly associated with having lots of devices. It took only a few lines of FORTH code, for example, to respond to a lat-long change without the right password by dialing 911 on the cellular phone and having the speech synthesizer intone, “I am a bicycle and I am being stolen. My present coordinates are...”

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