"Honeycomb turns out to be pretty sweet .... closer to something like Windows XP"
"It's very clear that a $500 tablet is impossible for anyone but Apple to build without cutting corners."
mcdonalds is replacing people with touchscreens at european locations- so no cash will be accepted either. aiming to provide faster cheaper service and food.
"Coffee Business Strategies blog did a little sleuthing, and believes otherwise. The site claims that Stark works as vp of application architecture for Mobiquity Inc., whose clients possibly include Starbucks. At least, according to screen grabs collected by Coffee Business Strategies, Starbucks was featured in the "Clients" section of the Mobiquity website-but that page was scrubbed clean and now pulls an error."
To promote the popular show's second season, a new street-level display at 6th Avenue and 21st Street in Chelsea lets you peep into a crime scene and use a touch screen to crack the case. Don't have time to dawdle? Scan a QR code with your smartphone on the way by, and you can sort through the evidence later.
The glasses are designed primarily for those kinds of scenarios: research projects, testing rooms and simulators - where the thing being looked at isn't just a computer or tablet screen, which would be better served by non-wearable eye tracking like Tobii's EyeX. If you want to study what part of a person's face people look at in various social situations, for example, the Tobii Glasses 2 can tell you.
TransitScreen has created SmartWalk, a projected display system that lets cities display the latest transport information on any surface.
The company - which already offers screens that collect together real-time information about buses, trains and traffic in office and university buildings - is aiming to make that data more available in public spaces. Along with up-to-date public transport information, the SmartWalk system will be able to direct passersby in the direction of the nearest station, or to local amenities and places of interest, along with the amount of time it should take to get there.