Pizza Hut’s Touchscreen Table Lets Diners Create The Perfect Pie [Video. Pizza Hut partnered with Chaotic Moon Studios to create an interactive concept table that lets customers visualize their pizza orders and customize them on the spot.
The concept is basically an interactive surface that lets diners build their orders from scratch. Diners can select their pizza size, sauce and cheese, and toppings. They can also add in side orders like spicy chicken wings or Hershey’s chocolate dunkers. After selecting a mode of payment, customers can even choose to play games while waiting. The company sees the interactive concept table as something that could be “the future of the Pizza Hut dine-in ordering experience.” Check out the promo video below for more about the concept. Pizza Hut Source: Engadget. 35 Innovators Under 35. Telecom trends in 2011 - decline of SMS and landline, growth of mobile internet. We have become so used to rapid changes in technology that we can lose perspective on shifts and trends.
Nearly every day we see a new app, every month a major new device is launched, and every few months many of us make another fundamental change in how we use technology. Telecoms businesses bear the brunt of these changes in our behaviour with technology so they are a great place to look for data on trends. I’ve just taken a look through data from Telstra*, the former national telco of Australia, and from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and there are some very clear trends: More phone calls are now made from mobiles than landlinesWe are making around 12.5% fewer phone calls than five years agoTexting is in decline, having peaked in 2010The average mobile user is now downloading 260% more data than a year agoOverall Australian internet data use is up 64% on last year Australians are not usually early adopters so these findings are likely to be reflected the world over.
Notes. Create Your Own Smartphone App With Infinite Monkeys – No Coding Knowledge Required. It would be great if we all had the time, skills, and patience to learn computer coding, especially since technology pervades so many areas of our life.
But thankfully, there are applications and web developers out there who provide ways for the rest of us to produce apps with little or no coding skills. Back in June, I reviewed one such web application called Buzztouch, which is designed to allow anyone to create their own smartphone application. Now a similar program has just been released called Infinite Monkeys, a web-based tool geared toward niche communities who want to share content on the iPhone and Android platforms. Infinite Monkeys is not as polished theme wise as Buzztouch, but unlike the latter, Infinite Monkeys, says the developers, “Is completely web-based, and works on any computer or tablet device. You never touch the source code and don’t have to know what it is or how it works.” Web-based GUI Building An App Core Content.
30 Game Changing Innovations. Above and Beyond KM. Personal Imaging Lab. Today's Internet is a tame technology relative to what it will be once the cameras are untethered.
Enjoy your one-sided watching while you can because the same Internet that you use to look at the world, with almost God-like omniscience, is about to turn its all-seeing, never-forgetting capacity to focus millions of increasingly wireless cameras onto you. And, like the Terminator, it absolutely will not stop, ever. Wearable technology will soon put little cameras (and monitors) into eyeglasses, sunglasses and apparel. Spending less than $100 will give you the ability to monitor all your conversations almost effortlessly and nearly invisibly. You will say, "Save the last 30 minutes" after you've seen something interesting or incriminating, and your wearable will comply. A window toward the future We can look for clues in people from the future among us now. Cameras and crime Is common surveillance good on a personal level?
Is common surveillance good on a community or societal level? Mary Meeker’s eye-popping annual Internet Trends report hits the web. Mary Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, has released her latest compilation of eye-popping data concerning trends on the web and in mobile.
Meeker’s analysis and data points are well-known for giving a comprehensive overview of what’s happening now in tech. Meeker presented the report this morning at the All Things Digital conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Related stories:Meeker data: Mobile web growing fast, but monetization is piss poorMeeker’s stats show how Asia is kicking our butt Specifically, the report indicates that Web growth remains high and that mobile adoption is still at an early stage. It also highlights current economic trends in the United States and indicates that there are seriously mixed results in monetizing mobile web use. Check out the awesome full report below: