Speaking Tokens

Well, today at the coffee shop IIT campus, I bought a token for coffee and gave it at the food counter....The waiter there asked me whether i wanted hot or cold coffee but being lost as ever i didn't hear.....frustrated he, interestingly put the token near his ear like an earphone and said only if the token could have spoken the order on its own.
This remark set me on a trail of thoughts...
His was a perfectly valid innovation....Speaking Menus could actually be a reality...

Think of this scenario....
A restaurant for couples...where they come for privacy ....

Each table is designed that has integrated menu cards or some interesting way of prenting food...(we'll discuss this some other day)
Like suppose u have a choice of virtual characters from whom u can chose ...
whether u want donald duck as the waiter or sherkhan or may be even Sharukh khan ehheh..

Once chosen these virtual chartacters will help u plan ur meal and make the occasions special with there humour or trivea they have to share with u.
This may be a service in conjugation with the existing human waiter system as some people might wish to have that human feel to it.....or might not wish to have any thing...

and these could even help u when u wish to propose to ur Gf. hehehe


And obviously these characters would be gr8 when u are lonely...but they need to have atleast slight amount of intelligence and we don't mind if they are actually controlled by humans at the back end
anyways in a different situation there could only be speaking tokens...which carry orders ...
from the tables to the kitchen...


So then people would say 'get me Star Wars experience'(or may be a Sahara desert experience) intead of 'bring me a south india thali'.


Now we could also chuck this character thing and think only ni terms of tokens lying on the table which are nothing but voice recorders....used as a medium of sending correct info to the Chef....


Actually i need more time to build a more elaborate thing......will come back with later ...