Purchasing behaviour analysis system wants to know what you like
This marketing analysis tool, under development by Fujitsu, uses technology to sense people’s movement. By analyzing how customers behave in response to merchandise, entirely new kinds of marketing information will be obtainable.
With regular POS systems, the only information obtained is how much merchandise has been sold. But by using this system, it’s possible to find out how customers acted while contemplating the purchase of a product. This system could help with marketing by showing how customers behaved when they were thinking about buying a product, but didn’t complete the purchase.
Renewable Energy in Lebanon
Because of frequent and lengthy power outages, many families and businesses in Lebanon make use of diesel generators, which pollute the environment. Wind turbines and photovoltaic systems are promising alternatives.
Make Perfect Coffee Then Weigh In
Mat Honan and Michael Calore make an Aeropress coffee, and the show off a digital scale that measures more than just your weight.
Genetic Impact of Culturally-Based Mating Systems
For many species, including humans, matings occur among a restricted pool of partners. In humans, restrictions on the choice of partners are culturally determined and frequently are the result of homophily, namely, contacts among individuals that are similar on some dimension.
Marcus Feldman, Stanford University, discusses how the dimension may itself be culturally transmitted, and its transmission may affect the transmission of other characters, which may be genetically determined, but have nothing to do with the dimension on which the mating choice is based. Socioeconomic choice of consanguineous marriage is an example; it has important consequences for genetic variation in many populations around the world.
Smart Simplicity & Self Organizing Networks
Things are getting more and more connected, which means increased network complexity. Imagine a system with automation, where many of the manual tasks can instead be controlled through policies - to manage the forest instead of the trees. When networks look after themselves, it doesn’t just mean lower costs of deployment and operations, it gives us a better user experience.
Belgium to Construct an Island to Store Excess Energy from Wind
Belgian authorities announced that the Belgium government had plans to build an island for the sole purpose of storing excess wind energy. According to reports, this is part of Belgiumapos’ plan to free itself off of nuclear energy by 2025.
The island will use a pumped-hydro system to store wind energy generated during off-peak hours, which will then be used to help satisfy the demand during hours when the wind isn’t blowing. The three-kilometer island is to be located three to four kilometers off the coast near the province of West Flanders.
Cloud Files vs. Cloud Block Storage
Learn about the differences between Cloud Files and Cloud Block Storage from Rackspace Engineer Chuck Thier, a guy who has worked on both systems.
Mine Kafon- Low Cost Land Mine Detonator
Afghan artist Massoud Hassani invented a simple machine for his war-torn homeland. The project, Mine Kafon, is a low-cost landmine detonator powered by the wind. Like a man-made tumbleweed, the device rolls across flat terrain to activate buried mines, relaying their locations back to a home base. The artist’s new Kickstarter project seeks funds to rebuild the prototype and deploy in Afghanistan.
ADAM High Energy Laser Counter-Rocket Demonstration
The Lockheed Martin Area Defense Anti-munitions (ADAM) prototype laser weapon system successfully destroys a rocket target flying on a wire at a range of 1.6 kilometers on Dec. 10, 2012, replicating similar demonstrations conducted earlier this year. Acquisition, tracking and destruction of the target took approximately three seconds. For more information, go to: www.lockheedmartin.com/adam.
High Winds Continue To Impact DTE Energy Customers
Winds gusting, up to 45 MPH, are continuing across this region. This video, taken nearby our North Area Energy Center in Cass City, shows how these high winds can impact power lines. There are currently 7,500 DTE Energy customers without power. We expect the winds to continue into this evening and then taper off after 11 p.m. To report an outage go to www.dteenergy.com/outage.
