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Welcome to the InterBink domain where we are building a site to tell you about 
Binking 
and how it will change the World.
What is a BINK? Basic IdentificationNumericKey
And what is it for? Read on:
If every object had
a unique identifiying number		 and if that number could be used 
to find out all about that object, 
then
objects could communicate.  
  • A microwave oven could know how to correctly cook the frozen dinner in it. 
  • A simple robot could figure out how to pick up a can of soda, recognize it is empty, and take it to the recycling bin. 
  • A forklift truck could find its way (using the binks in the wall, floor, and ceiling materials) to the required pallet, ensure that the correct items were on that pallet, and then take the items to the proper display area.
  • A grocery shelf could know when it needs to be restocked.
  • The icecream could cry out to be returned to the freezer when it finds itself on the paper towel shelf.
  • Your refrigerator could detect that you are about to run out of eggnog and lobster, and order more.
  • The instructions for setting your particular watch can be found online, and you don't need to know the model number.
  • Your washer could warn you when the Very Red sock (wash only in cold) gets in with the white shirts.
  • Your house knows where you left your car keys.
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    How will this happen?
    It will all be possible with Auto-ID.
    What is Auto-ID? A method whereby every individual object is identified with a unique number.
    How can that be done? Find out (later) at the MIT site.
    And how does it work?
    		By the magic of RFID
    How does the magic work? There is a quick, animated explanation at the MIT site.
    Where does Interbink fit in? Between binks, of course.
    Where one object needs to act on another. Where a person needs to find out. Where software needs to control a process. Where a process needs to control an object. Where an object needs to control the software.
    Between the reader and the action . . .  where the bink meets the world . . . where the World meets the bink . . .
    Research

    We have demos for products in robotics, process control, asset management, supply chain tracking, medical technologies, and retailing.

    		 Development

    We have manufacturing prototypes of devices for Auto-ID development, supply chain automation, and process control, as well as prototype software.

    		 Products

    And we are now in the process of binding Interbink technology  to an existing software product.


     
    For now, this is a temporary page that was cobbled together in a jiffy, as a placeholder, so you wouldn't get the Apache congratulations page.
    Interbink (the company) is an, as yet, unregistered entity.
    Interbink®(the brandname) is 
    a registered trademark/service mark.
    Email to bink@interbink.com
    TBDisker
     
    It is also a place to display the symbols we are creating.
    An application for the registration of 
    the trademark/service mark, 
    Interbink(TM), 
    has been filed.
    More symbols:
    Another RhoBeta
    I like this one less, because it can be misread.
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    Copyright ©  2001 JB Tait
    Last modified 011229.2348