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Italians have been early adopters too. In 1998 appliance maker Merloni Elettrodomestici started turning out Ariston appliances--washing machines, dishwashers and refrigerators--with RFID readers that will eventually allow them to communicate with products bearing smart tags. Washers, for instance, will be programmed to read clothing labels for cleaning instructions. But that vision had a setback last spring, when Benetton nixed RFID tagging for its Sisley line because privacy groups threatened a boycott. Benetton is still determined to use RFID for inventory, hoping to replicate a system in place at Prada's New York Epicenter store. Sales personnel there...
WIRELESS WASHING INVENTOR: ARISTON CORP. The technology of laundry isn't sexy. Wireless laundry, however, just might be. Italian manufacturer Ariston's Margarita 2000 is a washing machine equipped with a wireless transmitter for remote programming via cell phone or the Internet, so clothes can be washed and ready when you get home from the store. The folding chip, sadly, is still years away...
Skyscrapersful of radiomen hardly ever heard of the guy, but Aristocles, the son of Ariston (Plato for short) is one of radio's best scripters. He proved it recently, when the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council (TIME, Nov. 25) gave Plato's scripts an airing-three times a week over Boston's WHDH...
Plato, the son of Ariston, said Professor Goodwin, was born in Aegina about 427 B. C. He became a pupil of Socrates and, after the death of his instructor, opened an academy in an olive grove north of Athens, near which he owned a house and garden. Among his pupils were Demosthenes, Lycurgus and Aristotle...
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