[Discuss-gnuradio] Programmable Chips

[Steve Schear]

From Technology Review --
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/upstream0502.asp

Programmable Chips
Upstream By David Voss May 2002

Chips that change function on the fly will mean more versatile handhelds.
Late for an appointment, you grab your personal information appliance. 
Prompted by your uttering the words cell phone, the small gadget awakens 
and instantly programs itself for a mobile phone call. Done with the call, 
you say translator, and the device rewires itself to translate the latest 
business news from Tokyo. Issue the command map, and it reconfigures itself 
again to take a GPS reading and display your location in real time.