Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category.
September 4, 2007, 23:50
Can you imagine yourself doing your grocery shopping and when you arrive at the till, you pay only by putting your finger on a finger print reader?
According to this spanish article, there is a trial in Germany that seems successful enough to be extended to hundreds of stores.
Apparently the system is found useful by elderly people who don’t have to memorize pin number, or fiddle with coins and notes.
The drawback is that it is one more company to hold your payment details.
In other hand, being brick and mortar, they are not going to disappear the next day.
Source: faq-mac
July 7, 2007, 09:40
I want this shirt when traveling the south of Spain 
Ropa USB con ventiladores: para andar fresquito este verano: ”
Esta ropa alimentada mediante USB presume de un par de ventiladores localizados detrás de la camisa que aspiran el aire desde fuera enfriándolo. Mantienen a raya el olor del cuerpo, considerando lo mucho que uno suda durante el verano.“
(Via www.faq-mac.com.)
May 24, 2007, 20:30
Kangaroo Men Tryptich
Originally uploaded by Rija 2.0.
I’ve spent Sunday afternoon in Little Venice taking photos with a friend.
While we were having fun around the Paddington basin, these two men came past us chit chatting with each other and moving themselves smoothly. But what they had on their feet was odd and the moved with a slight bounce. It was cool to see.
The only time I saw these things before was in an advert for Zurich insurance company.
I don’t even know what’s the name. It would help if I want to pursue the idea of acquiring a pair of them 