Sick of watching one-click items in your Web shopping cart morph into an armload of missed delivery notices? Enter Brivo, a steel-reinforced, Net-connected-and-secure container that keeps your content on the edge of the network. One of several smartboxes aiming to own ecommerce's last yard, Brivo (www.brivo.com) promises to be considerably more than an icebox with an IP address. This mail drop is built on an open system - package bearers of any stripe (or even a neighbor returning your Matrix DVD) can unlock the Brivo by entering a keypad code. And its brain - a two-way wireless modem with an embedded 386 processor - tracks who delivered what and when, then alerts its owner by email. Early this fall, the company finished up a six-month beta and launched a full pilot test involving more than 100 houses in the Washington, DC, area. And Brivo Systems cofounder Carter Griffin promises that the boxes will be available "through major brick-and-mortar outlets" beginning this November.
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