<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:20 AM, Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org" target="_blank">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Utility fog has serious deficiences due to the reconfigurability<br>
requirement. The amount of wasted volume dedicated to navigation,<br>
propulsion and relinking is considerable. It only makes sense<br>
as a poor man's reconfigurable environment for meat puppets, and<br>
falls short on about everything if there are none.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Since we're talking about utility fog, here's a patent of mine. It's<br>intended as a way to get the effect of utility fog, but in a practical way:<br>
<a href="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,487,454.PN.&OS=PN/6,487,454&RS=PN/6,487,454">http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,487,454.PN.&OS=PN/6,487,454&RS=PN/6,487,454</a><br>
<br></div><div>No prototypes yet. I keep looking around for someone who would be<br></div><div>interested in (and have the funding to) develop it.<br></div></div></div></div>