Archive For November, 2010

Japanese vending machine uses facial recognition

By | November 22, 2010

Here’s something to blow your mind. Vending machines that come with cameras that use facial recognition software to guess your sex and age. These machines know what you’re more likely to want to drink. After identifying the customer, the smart machine will show images of “recommended” drinks, which will also alter according to the time [...]

Read more »

How to download your Flickr group photos

By | November 20, 2010

I must preface this first with the fact that I still love and use Flickr all of the time. I always share my photos there too, because I’m much more confident in Yahoo! securing my photos than any number of the free services we tend use. I love TwitPic to share photos too, but I [...]

Read more »

Why you shouldn't change your Twitter avatar

By | November 19, 2010

Wednesday night I was pleasantly surprised that my Twitter profile appeared in Jennifer Van Grove’s Mashable story, Twitter Calculates Reputation Scores for Each User. It made my night actually. I instantly heard from my friends who turn to Mashable for their social media news. In fact, I’m still hearing from them today. Pretty impressive considering [...]

Read more »

Tech Your Own Life

By | November 18, 2010

I’m very excited to be participating as a guest on a new podcast called Tech Your Own Life, hosted by Jason Snyderman and Michael Kaiser – via Real Punk Radio. I podcasted pretty regularly from 2005 – 2008, and I’ve often missed the medium. I still listen to loads of shows, but I’ve been dying to drop [...]

Read more »