SensoryMetrics » peltier-station-winery http://sensorymetrics.com re-inventing the User eXperience Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:46:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Geek Wine: 480 Mbit/s & 20% alcohol http://sensorymetrics.com/2008/10/30/geek-wine-480-mbits-20-alcohol/ http://sensorymetrics.com/2008/10/30/geek-wine-480-mbits-20-alcohol/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:36:02 +0000 Mitch Brisebois http://sensorymetrics.com/?p=2652 Your inner geek can finally meet your inner wino… Apparently Portugal has laws that dictate whether you can call wine a “port” based on a geographic designation. This is similar to the Champagne region in France. Peltier Station Winery created “USB” port to make a point. It’s not allowed to designate its product a port [...]]]> Your inner geek can finally meet your inner wino…

Apparently Portugal has laws that dictate whether you can call wine a “port” based on a geographic designation. This is similar to the Champagne region in France.

Peltier Station Winery created “USB” port to make a point. It’s not allowed to designate its product a port – so it uses the familiar USB icon to fill in the blank. (yes, of course it’s Californian!)

If this is successful, look out for copycat ports: 80, RS232, FireWire and Parallel won’t be far behind, although SCSI still has marketing challenges!

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