Celery Fax Machine Sends & Receives E-mail without a PC
Celery certainly looks like ordinary fax machine, but it does something that most fax machines don’t - it sends and receives email. To send an email, you handwrite a note and feed it into the fax machine. The recipient then receives your note as an attachment. As for incoming emails, they come through like ordinary faxes.
One year of Celery’s black & white service retails for $219 with the device, or $259 for the device and one year of color service. That isn’t too expensive at all, and this will probably do really well amongst those who have a hard time understanding how to use email. Then again even my five year old niece can send and receive email, and so can plenty of elderly people. ( Source: MacAddict Magazine, October 2006)
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Back in 1994 I was working on a unified messaging solution that tried to include something like this. One of the big issues that we ran across back then was how to deal with the addressing from the faxlike device to the specific email user.
We gave up on the idea long before spam became as prevelant as it is now. I wonder how many sheets of paper will be wasted on UCE.
Celery uses a challenge-response spam filter only allowing email from a user’s friends to be printed. New friends who email the user simply have to respond to a “challenge” to prove they’re not spam and be added to the address book.
I use ifbyphone.com to for emailing without a computer. They provide free email accounts with all subscriptions, and I can listen to, reply to, delete and compose emails all by voice from any telephone. It’s a lot cheaper than buying one of these devices, and all you need is a simple telephone, and it has lots of other cool features like news, blogs, games, chat etc. all by voice.