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It helped that Panera's paninis were already hot products. "To consumers, Panera isn't just a refueling stop," says Derrington. "It's a treat, and you don't have to pay a ton of money for that experience." For about $6, you can get half a sandwich, soup or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Panera Bread Defies the Recession | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

Now all the company has to do is repeat the sterling performance in 2010. Panera might not be able to stay out of the price wars forever. "I've never seen so many deals being offered," says Derrington. "They have to stay sharp." And they'll have to do it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Panera Bread Defies the Recession | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

American photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams once said, "There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer." He didn't say anything about robots. But Adams, who died in 1984, could not have anticipated a new device from Sony designed to replace human shutterbugs by making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sony's Robot-Cam: Partying Without a Photographer | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

The Party-shot was released in September without much fanfare, even though it's the first robo-cam on the market aimed at consumers. The obvious question is, have digital cameras, nowadays equipped with a considerable amount of artificial intelligence, come so far that they make human photographers obsolete? We...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sony's Robot-Cam: Partying Without a Photographer | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

Nor was its face-recognition software foolproof. The robo-cam was thrown by decoys such as posters of TIME magazine covers, and it had an almost offensive tendency to ignore human subjects with dark skin tones. The WX1 in particular had trouble establishing what Sony refers to as "optimal picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sony's Robot-Cam: Partying Without a Photographer | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

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