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1 Mini Cooper Launches Talking Billboards! I Want One!
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2 Japanese Machine Uses RFID To Make Crowds 'Buy Now, Buy Often'
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3 Wine RFID Rack: Totally Geeky Or Geek Chic?
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4 Would You Order Food Via RFID?
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5 Daily Tech: McDonald's in Japan Tests Out Pay-By-Phone Coupons
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6 Daily Tech: Google Gets Its Own Olympics Site
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7 Daily Tech: Canon Debuting New PowerShots This October
For $400, you can get yourself a shiny and new PowerShot SD990 from Canon which features 14.7 megapixel resolution and a 3.7X optical zoom. — Gizmodo The state of New York is starting to embed driver's licenses with RFID chips so that authorities can identify citizens when they enter the country. — Crave New tools like CLHack and CraigsToolbox make it much easier to search Craigslist, since Read more
Head on over to Google's Summer Games website to check out a variety of GOOG tools that are tracking all of the events in Beijing! — Lifehacker The $999.99 "I Am Rich" glowing red gemstone iPhone app was purchased by eight people from the iTunes App Store! — Valleywag Belkin has a new messenger bag that offers practical features and comes in five different color combinations. — Read more
McDonald's in Japan will be implementing a new e-coupon system where customers can pay for their order by placing their phone on a RFID reader. — Wired Now with Google Earth, you can check out new environmental layers that are based on future climate change estimates. — Gizmodo Here's an entertaining Saturday night Wii game to play with friends. . . Beer Pong for the Wii! — Read more
We've all agreed that the idea of organizing your wine rack with RFID technology, an automatic identification method that relies on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders, is completely geek chic. We've also agreed that the prospect of H&M allowing shoppers to purchase items via a Semacode bar that is read by a cell phone may revolutionize Read more
The WineM wine rack uses technology to keep your precious collection organized and cool. The colored lights provide some chic ambient lighting while RFID technology, much like the tech used by Japanese vending machines and those amazing Mini Cooper billboards, keeps your bottles in order. The RFID information is attached to each bottle of wine via a small tag so your collection can be stored and Read more
RFID technology, an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders, isn't just being used to create talking Mini Cooper billboards anymore. Digital World Tokyo reports that Fujitsu is using a UBWALL machine (pronounced 'U-B-Wall'), which is a giant plasma display panel loaded with RFID and Wi-Fi, to share Read more
Just when I thought Mini Coopers couldn't get any more adorable and innovative, the makers have launched a new ad campaign with special billboards displaying personalized messages to Mini drivers as they go by. How does it work? Mini Cooper drivers in trial cities filled out questionnaires with information like birth dates and special interests - for example "I love beer," "I need to work out Read more
