{"id":636,"date":"2005-07-06T20:21:35","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T03:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=636"},"modified":"2005-07-06T20:21:35","modified_gmt":"2005-07-07T03:21:35","slug":"now-if-we-added-some-rfid-into-this-whole-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/06\/now-if-we-added-some-rfid-into-this-whole-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"Now if we added some RFID into this whole mix . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocf.berkeley.edu\/~cfarivar\/photos\/gossip\/20050706.wineserver.mug.jpg\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"7\" hspace=\"7\"> That&#8217;s just what we need, technology taking the place of good ol&#8217; fashioned sommeliers. I can just imagine instead of being annoyed by people yakking away on their cell phones, people are going to be yakked to by their bottle of wine. While we&#8217;re at it, let&#8217;s just get rid of the waiters and have everyone just speak into a voice recognition box at a fast food place instead.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><I>&#8220;The idea is to bring the oenologist to the table so that each wine can explain itself in the first person,&#8221; said Daniele Barontini, whose Tuscan company Modulgraf is putting the final touches on the product to be launched in November.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We envision our talking wine label in restaurants, wine stores and at vineyards that offer wine tasting,&#8221; he told Reuters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The new &#8220;label&#8221; would consist of a chip implanted in the bottle that could be listened to with a small device about the size of a cigarette package in the wine shop or the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could tell you how to enjoy the wine, where it came from, everything you&#8217;d hear from a sommelier,&#8221; Barontini said. &#8220;You could even have music.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&#038;storyid=2005-07-06T190131Z_01_N06727742_RTRIDST_0_TECH-SCIENCE-ITALY-WINE-DC.XML\">TALKING WINE LABEL TO CHAT UP ITALIAN CONSUMERS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s just what we need, technology taking the place of good ol&#8217; fashioned sommeliers. I can just imagine instead of being annoyed by people yakking away on their cell phones, people are going to be yakked to by their bottle of wine. While we&#8217;re at it, let&#8217;s just get rid of the waiters and have everyone just speak into a voice recognition box at a fast food place instead. &#8220;The idea is to bring the oenologist to the table so&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-gossip","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-ag","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}