X-Message-Number: 12965
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
References: <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #12955 - #12958
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 10:45:22 -0000

> It will originally cost US$250 including the computer handset, plus
> US$30 a day monitoring costs.

$30/day=$10,950 a year. I wonder why they bother charging for the equipment
at all. Indeed, I'd *pay* someone $250 for the privilege of receiving
$30/day indefinitely.

Given that a technologically aware person will receive at the very least 20%
pa on his money the capital equivalent cost of this system is therefore
$10,950/.2+250= $55,000.

Someone who is not technologically aware will be getting 3% on his money
(from life insurance, fixed interest and the like), so to him the capital
equivalent cost would be $10,950/.03=$365,250.

The non techie will laugh, I should think, both on the basis of cost and
technophobia, and the techie will swallow and if he works in silicon valley
and is doing well may consider it. Whether the fee earning professional
would be willing to give ten minutes or so of his time a day towards funding
it rather depends on whether he is technophobic or not.

Ultimately, like everything else, the costs could be brought way down, if
the clients are willing to let computers watch for danger signals rather
than individual people (as obviously this system does from its cost).

If this is a system that catches on in its present form and can then be sold
to a market expanding because of falling prices, then I'd certainly be keen
to invest in its operators once they come to a public stock market. There
are obvious similarities with the mobile telephone market and also the
vehicle monitoring market both of which have seen long term gains for
investors of well over ten to one since they have been available on the
public markets. A holding bought in Europe's TrafficMaster system has
increased by more than ten to one since it appeared on the public markets in
1994.

Many thanks for posting this news, and if you hear anything about a public
flotation please keep us informed. I would certainly recommend those using
personal investment to fund their cryopreservations consider this stock even
though I would imagine it to be expensive from a traditional broker's point
of view. As ever it is probably best to buy once it is publicly traded and
wait for a period when tech stocks are unloved.

--
Sincerely, John de Rivaz
my homepage links to Longevity Report, Fractal Report, my singles club for
people in Cornwall, music, Inventors' report, an autobio and various other
projects:       http://geocities.yahoo.com/longevityrpt


----- Original Message -----
From: CryoNet <>
To: <>
Sent: 18 December 1999 10:00
Subject: CryoNet #12955 - #12958


> CryoNet - Sat 18 Dec 1999
>
>     #12958: MED: Computerised shirt could save lives  [Eugene Leitl]
>
> It will originally cost US$250 including the computer handset, plus
> US$30 a day monitoring costs.

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