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RE: High hopes at Yahoo, Intel for Internet-enabled TV

ashcrest Updated - 6th Jan 2009

Why is it that the FIRST Thing that came into my mind...Was the "CUECAT"
For those of you lucky enough to not be deluged by these things in your mail(second only to AOL disks)

"The CueCat concept was a commercial failure. It also received the dubious distinction as one of "The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time" according to PCWorld Magazine. Some believe that failure was because of implementation stumbles that alienated early adopters, but others say the device was ultimately of little use. Wrote Jeff Salkowski of the Chicago Tribune, "You have to wonder about a business plan based on the notion that people want to interact with a soda can," while Debbie Barham of the Evening Standard quipped that the CueCat "fails to solve a problem which never existed."

And it wasn't just BarCodes that it interacted with...if you were watching TV and a Commercial or News Story came on your TV would emit a "tone" that only "CueCat" could "hear"...and CueCat would open up a web page (automatically...You could not stop it..you could only close your browser) "To give you MORE INFO relative to the Commercial"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat