Her comes the “shopping cart of the future”. Whole Foods is planning to test a new concept, using Microsoft’s Kinect sensor for Windows. The motorized cart identifies a shopper with a loyalty card, follows the shopper around the store, scans items as they’re placed inside, marks them off the shopping list, and even checks the shopper out in the end.
IBM released its annual prediction of the five technologies that will alter our lives over the next five years, including the end of passwords and spam, the reality of mind reading and more.
Nice article from ABC News on SkyTran, the company developped by one of Triana's advisor Jerry Sanders.
Forget planes, trains and automobiles, a totally new kind of transportation is in the works at a NASA lab in the South Bay. Gliding pods could someday pick you up where you live and drop you off at work.
In a nondescript building at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, a little bullet shaped vehicle, creeps down a 50-foot metal test track.
"You're whisked away at a high speed with silence -- because SkyTran is a passive magnetic levitation vehicle, meaning there's no clitter-clatter...