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...Europe, it'll likely target train stations and airports. But we've all been burned by machines that take and keep our money but fail to vend. Won't consumers be wary? Actually, Crowley insists, they can buy with more confidence. The network connection monitors the machines around the clock. It knows if a product's not delivered and automatically refunds the payment. Cyber-monitoring also lets vendors save money by better managing inventory. And it provides security, sending out instant alerts of any tampering or theft attempts. Still, given that Vodafone's machines are crammed with a range...
...villages, 75 kilometers apart, last year in Bangladesh. And I thought, "Wow, it's going to run on cow dung, there will be all sorts of issues. We'll send engineers, and if we can get any data..." Any data? Those machines ran flawlessly around the clock. Each village went from never seeing electricity, never having a light bulb at night, to being fully electrified. They're small villages. But they were fully electrified for nearly half year each. And the only fuel - there's no infrastructure for that either - that went into each of these boxes was [methane...
...Look at how technology is freeing parents from having to be the bad cop all the time. We use television as an alarm clock for our children: when the show's over, it's time for bed, or time for school. We don't have to be the bossy parent who enforces bedtimes - we get to be the cool parent who lets his kid watch a show. Now there's a DVD filtering device called Clearplay, which edits out violence, sex, and foul language on the fly. You no longer have to be the meanie who puts his foot down...
...trees whiz past us, faster and faster, away from the city, closer to home.Emma M. Lind ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. She also spends her commuting hours resenting the need to dress professionally, especially when the alarm clock rings at the crack of dawn...
Wake-up Call Sunday, July 30, 8:38 a.m. Officers were dispatched to a report that an alarm clock had been ringing inside a room for an extended period of time in Vanderbilt Hall. An officer arrived at the location and reported that the alarm clock had been turned...