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

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

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

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

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

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

Wearable Music

Musicians are currently battling the digitalization of music and its ease to be pirated. These issues are motivating artist to find new ways to sell their music. Whether it is U2 selling their music on a limited edition iPod or the option to pay your own price for the Radiohead's latest album each band is coming with creative strategies to get their fans to support their compositions. Matchbox 20 is taking it a step further charging $35 for a USB wristband loaded with their "Exile on Mainstream" album and other media.

Source: Billboard Magazine October 13, 2007

Wearing Technology

Within the past several years we have increased the amount of gadgets we carry. In response, to adapt many clothing companies have created lines of hats, jackets, and other garments to carry devices.

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Antibacterial Clothing

Functional clothing is finally becoming trendier. Recently, Olivia Ong, a fashion design student at Cornell, created two outfits out of antibacterial fibers. One outfit is a dress that is composed of antibacterial nanotechnology. This outfit increases the wearer's defense against the common cold and flu. Her other design serves as a filter that clears out smog other harmful gasses.

Image taken from Anne Ju/Cornell Chronicle

Source Cornell University's Cronicle Online

Lights, Action, T-Shirts?

Last year Phillips Research intends to lead with a new form of marketing. They plan to use t-shirts and furniture to serve as dynamic advertising mediums. Integrating textiles and Lumalive technology they are able to create fabric that emits controlled light to display text, designs, and art.

Phillips Research

Caption: Image was taken from the Phillips website

Introduction

This blog is a collection of newer technologies and gadgets. In each post information about the product or service, links to the sources of information, and additional comments about the product.