Tasty L.A.N.

This came to me in a dream, so I don’t know if it has been baked.

Ok, my Liquid Area Network would use liquid through tubes to transfer data. It would use alternating pulses of water (and possibly flavors, and temperatures) to send data via binary code.

Of course, this would be much slower than regular data transfer, but you can’t put a price on coolness.

Originally, in my dream, my coffee maker sent the news to my upstairs computer using alternating pulses of coffee. And, a pressure sensor measured the speed at which the coffee came though, translating it into binary. Upper case letters had a slightly more amount of sugar, and fonts were measured by the amount of cream in the coffee, dark=small, light=big, it was measured by a light sensor. And if there weren’t enough large fonts or caps in a message it would send an end data signal and then the correct amount to even it out.

Of course, this would be used for home L.A.N.’s (I’m so proud of the acronym) only because resistance would slow the water down to much over large distances. Plus some one would start sending viruses over the lines if it was public. But it would be nice to have, lets say, Coca-Cola to send a blast of cold water through your lines to clear out previous data fragments and then send you a class of coke.