Japan is always coming up with new high-tech gadgets that never fail to amaze. Not only did they invent a digital vending machine (with a 47-inch touchscreen), they made it so "intelligent" that it is able to scan the customer's data and with the information, able to present products based off of their sex and age. Using external information, the vending machine is able to collect data from weather information, time of the day and even the season which the machine can use to offer hot coffee on a cold morning or an iced drink on a hot day. Named 'Acure' this friendly digital vending machine is even able to thank their customers. The company is planning to have at least 500 installed throughout Japan by 2012.
Article:
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/digital-vending-machine-vending-machine-multitouch-display,news-10672.html
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Green meets Technology
Samsung has created a solar-powered LCD television. This TV produces energy from the ambient light in a room and requires no other source of energy for it to work. The TV screen is also transparent. You can display images on the screen and still be able to see the objects behind it!
App that stop texting while driving
This app is created to stop the texting function of the phone while the user is in a moving car. I think this is a great app to stop the urge of texting when one is driving a car.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
TUNEBUG SHAKE
This is a pretty cool electronic device that is attached to the top of your bicycle Helmet to keep noise away,instead of using the traditional earplugs.The way it works is that,its send surround sound(music) into the head area so that it keep you entertain while keeping the noise away.Nice equipment and show how a piece of technology like this one,can be applied and use for other purposes(Informatics).
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Twitter Resume
Twitume is a web application that helps the user create, modify and publish their personal resume onto twitter. The web application is meant to "propulse" and exand the users network and get their resume out to all of their twitter contacts, while at the same time have a way to keep in touch with this active network. I think this is a creative way to spread your resume, as long as you are comfortable with posting your resume information on the internet. But nonetheless it's a good way to network and should be looked into if you have an active twitter and want to get your resume out and on a roll and increase your chances of getting a job.
Website: http://www.twitume.com/
Website: http://www.twitume.com/
Virtual Star Map
There's a new app for the iPhone that takes virtual reality into consideration. The application judges where you are directing the iPhone screen towards the sky and the application shows you real-time what constellations, stars, and satellites you're looking at. The app is called Star Walk and is considered very time-sensitive and beautiful, letting you zoom in and out of points of interest. The application is recommended for students and is also available for the iPad, which I'd personally be excited to see. I think this is a cool way to use virtual reality with technology, and is great educational tool too.
Read more up on it here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/star-walk-5-stars-astronomy/id295430577?mt=8#
Versatile Robot Joints
This little joint here is able to maneuver around various obstacles and change it's main structure to better fit in between different terrains. This tiny robot is only a starting point in changing the different ways vehicles may function and in general how robots movement will be altered. Naturally this makes transformers seem more possible in the future, but definitely not within the next century. I have seen several different tiny robots but with the functionality of this joint endless possibilites arise. Watch the link below to watch how maneuverable it actually is!
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9804
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