'Magic box' could ease life
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Some day no home may be without Dr. George E. Mueller's little magic box.
It would play wake up music in the morning and report the news while preparing the family breakfast and delivering it to bedside.
It also would telephone for a taxi to get the man of the house to work, do the family grocery shopping, handle the family finances and give advice on the stock market, among other things.
So far the box only exists in the imagination of Dr. Mueller, vice-president of General Dynamics and former head of manned space operations for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). But he predicts it might be reality by the year 2,000.
The heart of the wonder gadget, estimated by Mueller to cost about $1,000 each, would be a small central processor, perhaps an inch wide, and inch deep and two inches long.
Mueller said the idea occurred to him while he was preparing a series of lectures on space to be delivered at an international seminar in Australia in August.
He concluded there was no reason why technical developments already known and used
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by NASA shouldn't be wedded to other concepts still on the drawing board to make life easier for housewives.
He acknowledged his dream might not be wholly pleasing to everyone. A broker whose advice ran counter to that of the magic box might be miffed. But Mueller was certain this would be offset by the housewife's pleasure with the cube.
Embedded in a display console no bigger than a television set, it would have a high speed memory of about 10,000 words, a memory for voice commands, a circuit for recorded messages and a tape recorder that could store several days of designated programs.
That would be only the beginning.
The housewife could tell the computer what music she wants to hear and TV programs she wants to watch during the day and store the information for delivery when requested.
When her husband is ready to leave for work, the computer would order a taxi and stay on the job until there was assurance that the cab was en route.
Grocery shopping would be revolutionized. The hard working housewife would dial her supermarket and, with the aid of the computer's compressed information and a remote TV unit select the food she wants and load it on an automatic shopping cart tagged with her name and address.
An automatically computed bill would be submitted on the TV screen for her approval then charged to her account and credited to the grocer's at the local bank.
After ordering the groceries, the housewife could dial her favorite shop and select a new dress from those shown on the TV screen. It would be charged to her account and delivered before sundown.
The computer could keep a current account of his tax situation, advise him how to avoid tax liabilities, and pay his taxes—as it would his wife's grocery bill—when they come due. The magic box could even evaluate the market and predict the action of his competition.
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Get it all together at your place with beautiful posters, funky incense, lampshades and India prints from the Hodge Podge at 15 W. Worth, 10:00-5:30
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For Sale: 1) Unused: copper chafing dish, calf wallet & key case, Lite-Gem high-intensity study lamp, 8 silver drinking cups, assorted silver dishes, 2) Used: brass nautilus decanter & 4 glasses, 10" GE fan, Tole tray table, assorted kitchen items, AM clock radio with appliance remote, 3) Used: brass nautilus AM, Short Wave (1.6-30 MC) radio, world-wide reception. Call VI 3-1400. 6-30
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