"Martin Pichlmair. 2005. Seven mile boots. In Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (MULTIMEDIA '05). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1081-1081. DOI=10.1145/1101149.1101387 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1101149.1101387" With seven-league boots through the Internet - when you take a stroll through the physical world in this wireless LAN footwear, you just might meet people who happen to be spending some time in a chat-room. Their virtual conversations are made audible as spoken text coming out of the boots.

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