Here's a link from SearchCIO-MidMarket. An Information Appliance, as opposed to any normal computer is: • designed and pre-configured for a single application (like a toaster appliance, which is designed only to make toast), • so easy to use for untrained people, that it effectively becomes unnoticeable, "invisible" to them, • able to automatically share information with any other IAs. ===================== Also check out the WhatIs article on the Turing test.

Here's a link from <a href="http://searchcio-midmarket.techtarget.com/definition/Internet-appliance">SearchCIO-MidMarket</a>. An Information Appliance, as opposed to any normal computer is: • designed and pre-configured for a single application (like a toaster appliance, which is designed only to make toast), • so easy to use for untrained people, that it effectively becomes unnoticeable, "invisible" to them, • able to automatically share information with any other IAs. ===================== Also check out the <a href="http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Turing-Test">WhatIs article on the Turing test</a>.