Correction: March 19 , 2001 Monday Because of an editing error, a report in the Technology Briefing column of Business Day on March 9 about a plan to close the Trojan Room Coffee Camera, which started as a way of checking a coffeepot at Cambridge University and became a Web icon, misstated the location of the university.
The Trojan Room Coffee Camera, which started as a lazy way of checking whether the computer geeks at Cambridge University in London had emptied the coffee pot and became a Web icon, will cease this summer when the computer laboratory moves, its founder, Quentin Stafford-Fraser, said.
To be sure, many Web cameras mimic the utility of the Trojan Room Coffee Pot camera, only on a grander scale.
Inside there is coffee, cake and camera crews.
Behind the wheel of one car, struggling to balance a coffee, umbrella and camera, was Braden Hicks, a lanky 19-year-old visiting from Euless, Tex.
YOUR coffee maker or camera may already have some of these elements, responding automatically to shut themselves off or follow a sequence of timed commands (wait 30 seconds, take a picture; at 6 a.m. start brewing, etc).
His space became a marriage of a few personal objects — a flea market blanket on the bed, fresh produce from his farmers' market gig, a kettle for the shared ritual of tea or coffee, his tools, camera, books (including a copy of Gaston Bachelard's "Poetics of Space") and a record player and LPs for music — with the architecture.
Donations came in a stream: people brought stationery, printers, cameras, coffee makers, and even a MacBook laptop computer.
Social networks are here to improve your life the same way that cars, keyboards, search engines, cameras, coffee makers, and everything else are: by giving you the power to do something.
Hosts, Fox correspondents and guests of all sorts wander on and off camera, drinking coffee and soda, tapping at their BlackBerrys and laptops, reading news and responding to comments from viewers.
The Nikon Camera Lens coffee mug is finally here Dueling "Life" Blu-ray discs: Attenborough vs. Winfrey Review: Kobo eReader Full-color 13-inch e-paper "e-Magazine" looks-promising A Nixie Tube display that looks like something Q would use.
