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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 they make the images pop up before you actually click on the listing.
Daily Tech: Google Gets Its Own Olympics Site
- 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.
Daily Tech: McDonald's in Japan Tests Out Pay-By-Phone Coupons
- 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.
Would You Order Food Via RFID?
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 shopping, but is the notion of ordering food via RFID as intriguing?
This week The Korea Times reported that McDonald's and SK Telecom have unveiled a new ordering system that will allow customers to use mobile phones and infra-red sensors to make orders from their table.
Wine RFID Rack: Totally Geeky Or Geek Chic?
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 accessed from your computer.
Japanese Machine Uses RFID To Make Crowds 'Buy Now, Buy Often'
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 'information' with the masses. Apparently, a financial services company is installing the terminals in its branches around Japan in an effort to provide more information about trading, stock prices and branch services.
Mini Cooper Launches Talking Billboards! I Want One!
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 after work" and "I love my boyfriend."
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Key 2 Safe Driving Turns Off Your Phone While You Drive
Text messaging or talking on your cell phone while driving is a nasty habit, dangerous and illegal. It's hard to break habits sometimes though, but you don't have to rely on willpower alone.
The service Key 2 Safe Driving stops you from even being able to talk or text while driving.
Audiobar 'Hørbar' Installation Explores Social Interaction
We live in a world where it's easy to rely on distant online communities for personal interaction. Communication which was once reserved to face-to-face interaction, telegrams or letters is now done via AIM, e-mail or text message. So how should we interact in social groups and how do we explore our social interaction?
Daily Tech - "Dancing with the Stars" for the Wii and PS2
- Fulfill all your dancing desires with DWTS for Wii and PS2 - Chip Chick
- Secondary school in UK tests RFID embedded uniforms - Engadget
- Five things to avoid when online dating - Switched
- Comment to Win a Pink Polaroid Digital Camera! - Geeksugar
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