* E-mail from your washing machine

Carnegie Mellon University is testing a Web-based system that sends
e-mail to students when their laundry is done and allows them to log
on to an Internet site to check the status of machines, the
Associated Press reported yesterday. The e-Suds system, developed by
USA Technologies, is being used in three dorms this spring and will
be installed at three other colleges this summer. The school expects
to offer it to its nearly 4,000 students who live on campus by the
fall semester. "I'll probably just keep using my watch," said
Michael Ryan, a 19-year-old computer sciences major at Carnegie
Mellon.