Restaurants’ takeout menus made interactive via QR codes
It’s become increasingly common for restaurants to build and offer custom, branded mobile apps that let patrons place orders by phone, but it’s still up to consumers to go to the bother of downloading and installing them. Enter Paperlinks, a Los Angeles firm that has created a service that lets restaurants embed their takeout menus with QR codes for quick and seamless mobile ordering. READ MORE…
(Source: springwise)
The Louvre to hand out 3DS systems as tour guides.
The Louvre museum in Paris - home to the Mona Lisa - is to replace it’s audio tour guides with Nintendo 3DS units.
The current audio guides are used by only 4 per cent of the museum’s 8.5 million annual visitors. With the 3DS, visitors will be able to locate themselves within The Louvre, select themed tours including specialised guides for children, and listen to “hundreds of commentaries in seven languages about the works on display,”
Nintendo has developed the content with guidance from The Louvre’s creators, and is also planning downloadable smartphone and tablet apps to enhance visitors’ experience.
(Source: gameplanet.co.nz, via emergentfutures)
NFC service for stores offers ‘tap and go’ digital receipts
Proximiant is a service that uses NFC to let brick-and-mortar stores send digital receipts directly to shoppers’ phones.
Israeli Company Launches Touchless Technology →
I can remember my parents being overwhelmed by the idea of a touchscreen computer. Growing up in a generation of analog entertainment, the concept of utilizing their fingers to control various tech devices was equivalent to living in the futuristic world of The Jetsons. This technology is so easy to use that even someone as traditional as my father now owns an iPhone and a MacBook. He went from reading a physical newspaper for 20 years to subscribing to various publications on his iPad. Flipping through sections of the paper has never been easier, and companies in Silicon Valley and beyond are to thank.
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Domino’s Pizza has found a novel way to engage iPad users and maybe sell a few more pizzas along the way. The new Pizza Hero app allows users too rise through the pizza making ranks and compete against others on the Game Centre Leaderboard. Not only is the new app an interactive game it also allows you make a pizza onscreen the way you want it and order it to your door in real life.
R-Link, the integrated, connected tablet
R-Link will provide future Renault vehicles with affordable, intuitive multimedia connectivity, both with the outside world and with its users.
On the Brink – Ericsson documentary explores the past, present, and future of technology and connectivity, featuring Flickr founder Caterina Fake, Wired UK editor David Rowan, Soundcloud co-founder Eric Wahlforss, and other tech thought-leaders
Innovation @ GE →
from TheAtlantic.com a new innovation from GE
