Were you totally wowed by Microsoft’s Surface? Trying to figure out how to come up with $10K so you can have one for yourself? Save some cash and build your own instead! Technology Review has an article on Eyebeam engineers who created an open source version, and there’s a nice exploded-view image of it at [...]
Is your first life getting in the way of your second life? Does your avatar get cranky if left unattended too long? Are real life meetings a bore compared to in-world events? Pop into Second Life whenever you want, using your mobile phone.
Vollee has just released a video demonstrating Second Life running on a mobile [...]
I recently went to a demo on self-checkout presented by Library Automation Technologies.
Here’s the particular machine I saw last week:
http://www.latcorp.com/latsite/fs907.htm
It looks like it will be very simple for patrons to use and easy to maintain.
Lots of nice features: handicap accessible, multi-language availability, works as both barcode and rfid reader (also will scan barcode and [...]