Sunday, December 2, 2007

Hidden Benefits for Credit Card Coke Machines

Other than a 30% on increased sales, vending companies are receiving added benefits to their business through credit card readers. Rather than just accepting cold hard slow cash, vending companies have the ability to track sales and other helpful business statistics on their machines whether it is a Coke, laundry, or other types of machines.

Source: Entrepreneur Magazine, December 2007

You entrepreneurs may be creative, but are you organized?

Stamp your documents Inc provides creative and innovative inventors with a defense tool to protect their dear to heart world changing ideas. As the basis of most ideas and patents an idea can be protected by a simple unbiased time stamp provided by this online company. Rather than send, email, or whatever an entrepreneur may do to time stamp their idea they can easily purchase this software service and time stamp their ideas digitally. Paying a yearly fee of $30-$50 dollars may seem like chump change when you invent the next Ebay, Google, iPod, or Facebook.

Stamp Your Documents

Saturday, November 24, 2007

The Amazon Kindle

Amazon's latest product that will change the way their customers read. Whether it is a newspaper, book, magazine, or blog Amazon customers can use this small and simple wireless device on the go. Weighing around 10 ounces this powerful device is equipped with the electronic ink technology that allows for crisp reading even under the sun. The highly mobile product allows for instant downloads of updated periodicals, e books, and blogs all for $399. More interestingly the wiress service is provided under the device cost so there are no monthly fees. Additional memory to carry more media can be stored in an SD card and additional word and image files can be viewed by this device.

Amazon Kindle

Monday, November 19, 2007

Deep Brain Stimulation

Ohio farmer go under surgery to correct his neurological sickness I was fascinated with their success. (video) Although he is not completely healed he has the ability to control most of his motor functions and live a practically normal life. With the technology that wires into his brain he pretty much is a cyborg less the ultra strength abilities. It takes an enormous amount bravery to undergo such a procedure.
Deep Brain Stimulation

Monday, November 5, 2007

Watchout 16 year-olds your dreams come true

These three letters V2V will mean in the future the potential of saving lives, vehicles, and potentially other buildings depending on the intensity of an auto accident. Vehicle to vehicle communications will change the way people interact on the road. Combining GPS technology with sensors and high powered algorithms cars will be able to predict accidents before they happen. In the rain, fog, or just a noisy passenger all these driving performance inhibitors will hold less weight in driving safety while using V2V systems. With Volkswagen's backing and FCC approving the 5.9 GHz frequency a road has been paved to continue V2V technology.

V2V

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Microsoft Surface

Microsoft is releasing their innovative interactive surface tables that allow users to experience a new way to interact with media. The surface of the table is representative of an LCD screen that allows for multi point touch interaction. Users are able to transfer files from their mobile devices, credit cards, and online by setting the physical device directly on the table. After a few seconds the device information loads on the screen and users are able to drag and drop files through the touch screen interface. The product has been available on demo for the product in a few sites but Microsoft plans to release it for commercial use this spring.

Microsoft Surface

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Pepper Spray on Steroids

Featured on Wired Magazine the Avurt IM-5 is unlike any typical personal protection device. This pepper spray gun is equipped with a laser sight and five vomit rounds of nitrogen propelled pepper pellets. With a range of 40 feet, the perpetrator will be stunned in their tracks.


Source: Wired Magazine Oct 2007