Touch screen coke machine Sweet!
The lowly vending machine is due for an update, and here’s Samsung’s take. Continue reading… “Samsung’s uVending Touchscreen”
WowWee Spyball
Just don’t take this to a company softball game or it may find its way into the catchers mit
This sort-of-spherical object is WowWee’s Spyball, a tiny roving camera that can capture video or still pics of whatever’s in front of it. It sends footage back to you via Wi-Fi, and you can control it over an Internet connection from pretty much anywhere. Even if you don’t have Internet access, you can still unleash Spyball via an ad-hoc Wi-Fi connection.
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Wall-Mounted Smart-Leaf PC
Smart-Leaf PC
Space is always a problem with PCs, but putting a PC onto the wall, Originatic has brought out a solution to the quandary. Scheduled for the CES ’09 debut is the all-in-one wall-mounted Smart-Leaf PC, designed with space-saving intentions. So if you’re a casual PC user, there isn’t anything better coming your way anytime soon, therefore this rugged PC with all eminent features is worth a gaze.
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Specchio Wi-Fi Digiframe Mirror
Gone are the days when a picture frame was just meant to display your cherished memories. We have seen different types of digiframes in the past, including the digiframe with built-in photo printer and the singing digiframe.
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Faster Wireless to Compete with Speed of Fiber
Researchers at Battelle used off-the-shelf optical telecommunication
components to create a faster millimeter-wave device.
There’s no shortage of demand for faster wireless, but today’s fastest technologies–Wi-Fi, 3G cellular networks, and even the upcoming WiMax–max out at tens or hundreds of megabits per second. So far, no commercial wireless system can beat the raw speed of optical fiber, which can carry tens of gigabits per second.
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Using Your Skin to Send Out Wireless Signals
Here’s a somewhat unsettling proposition: using your skin as an antenna for wireless devices or medical implants. Yes, your skin would be the conductor, sending signals along the outside of your body and saving energy by using the energy already in you.
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Sneakers Detect Wi-Fi While You Walk
Step Right Into The Wi-Fi Zones
“A Step in the Right Direction” is a sneaker that detects Wi-Fi while you walk, via a tricky network detection unit embedded under the left shoe flap.
The three LEDs on the flap (supposedly) show you how much Wi-Fi action is within 50 meters. If the lights are blinky, you’ve got bupkis…
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Handlink Coin Operated Wi-Fi Kiosk
A Handy Wi-Fi Solution
Now don’t get me wrong, I actually think this wi-fi hotspot solution is a half-decent idea, particularly if you operate a small coffee shop or other venue and can’t afford to give away free wi-fi. But why is it solely reliant on coins? Even payphones these days have a slot for using a debit card or other coin alternative.
That aside, the Handlink Wi-Fi Kiosk just needs an internet connection from a local ISP and after that it seems to be pretty autonomous.
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BoltBus Fleet Has Free Wi-Fi, Power In Every Seat
The Conveniently Geeky Bus
A new bus service called “BoltBus” offers free Wi-Fi an power outlets in all its vehicles.
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Intel’s 60 Mile Long-Range Wi-Fi
Intel has found a way to stretch a Wi-Fi signal from one antenna to another located more than 60 miles away.
They recently announced plans to sell a specialized Wi-Fi platform later this year that can send data from a city to outlying rural areas tens of miles away, connecting sparsely populated villages to the Internet. The wireless technology, called the rural connectivity platform (RCP), will be helpful to computer-equipped students in poor countries, says Jeff Galinovsky, a senior platform manager at Intel. And the data rates are high enough–up to about 6.5 megabits per second–that the connection could be used for video conferencing and telemedicine, he says.
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