Smart vending machines coming to the states. Touchscreens, finger print readers, and….food.

Smart vending machines coming to the states. Touchscreens, finger print readers, and….food.

For far too long, I’ve sat through countless movies taking place in lands in the far east, amazed by their technology and captivated by their assortment of…vending machines. Yes. Those hulking boxes of consumer consumption are pretty sweet. In lands far far away that is. Here in the states, we still stair at decade-old, rickety, broken down, way past their prime units. In the year 2010 and beyond, we need something new. Fast.. Next Generation Vending and...

iPhone 4.0 to include haptic feedback, RFID reader, and finger print scanner? [Rumor]

iPhone 4.0 to include haptic feedback, RFID reader, and finger print scanner? [Rumor]

Ahhh yes. The iPhone 3GS and OS 3.0 have been out for almost a month now and already people are looking ahead to 2010 and what the next iPhone announcement will bring. Fresh up on today’s list-o-iPhone rumors centers around three main technologies: haptic feedback, RFID, and finger print scanning. The benefits of each or pretty straight forward. Haptic feedback would give a more “physical” response to onscreen actions sort of but not quite like...