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(26 Oct 2000) Natural Sound

A week-long trade show dedicated to the internet began in New York City on Wednesday featuring hundreds of displays with some of the latest advances in computer internet technology.

The show featured widely recognised companies such as Microsoft and America Online, but also included smaller organisations promoting a wide range of the latest possibilities in modern computing.

At the Jacob Javits Exhibition Centre in New York City the Internet World trade show got underway.

Hundreds of people went to see the latest in internet technology from graphics software, data-transmission and even more advances on voice-recognition computer systems.

Many punters were pleased to see systems for improving internet searching.

Most of the technologies on display have been aimed at business applications rather than consumer use.

SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Here at the floor of the show you'll see a lot of technologies for the business internet. It's not a consumer show, as much as it's a show for the people who are executives in companies that have to do with the internet"
SUPERCAPTION: Jack Powers, Conference Chairman for Internet World

One of the newer technologies at the show is a software system that allows the user to give voice commands to an internet browser.

The user can instruct the computer to find various sites on the net, such as a weather forecast for a particular city, in the same way that you might ask a person to go and find something.

UPSOUND - talking computer

The computer replies when it is searching, and then displays the information on the screen.

SOUNDBITE: (English)
"What you're watching on the screen behind me is Ivan. Ivan is an intelligent voice-animated navigator, and he allows us to surf and search the Web by just talking to him like you would with a best friend. You can ask Ivan to find recipes, stock prices, news, whatever you want.
SUPERCAPTION: Mark Strumwasser, Vice President for Sales, One-Voice Technologies

Another rather novel exhibitor, DigiScents, provided the latest in "iSmell" technology.

Offering more lifelike and memorable experiences, the computer displayed scented websites, and even e-mails, available from the software application and a special box to dispense the scents.

BodyMedia has developed fashionable, wearable, health monitors that sense and record body statistics.

These monitors, combined with the BodyMedia web site, form a system that helps people to define, maintain and monitor their own personal healthy lifestyle.

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"It's an arm band that has built-in sensors, that track various body statistics an on-board computer. Then that information is wirelessly transmitted to our website, where it's displayed in a usable form on the health manager to help you track every day your progress in maintaining a balanced and healthy lifestyle".
SUPERCAPTION: Craig Lidon, Chief Medical Officer, Body Media

Every imaginable ingredient for a wildly successful website is on display for the remainder of the week.

Soon you could be able to scan a photograph of yourself on to the Web and initiate a search for any other person who looks like you.

And with a click of your mouse, you might just be able to wake up and smell the coffee.

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