Word: kiosk
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...faked euro bills - 50s, 20s, 100s and 200s, in that order - could become so widespread that vendors will refuse to accept them. Seven years ago, the U.S. Treasury was compelled to release redesigned $100 bills after an uncontrollable rise in the number of bad notes in circulation. Already, Greek kiosk owners in Thessaloniki, not far from the borders of Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia, are buying up large quantities of special scanners and pens with UV lights to spot fakes. What progress has been made is the result of tighter coordination between police inside and outside the euro zone. Until...
...Cambridge Police Department (CPD) officers arrested Anthony C. Washington at the Harvard Square Kiosk on charges of domestic assault and battery. The victim was transported to court to seek a restraining order...
...minutes of charge time for Motorola, Nokia and other mobile-phone brands. Singapore-based InfiniTec has sold more than 3,000 units to supermarkets, hotels and universities throughout Chinese cities and a smaller number to venues in Hungary, India and Southeast Asia. NetBooth, a Las Vegas Internet-kiosk company, just purchased 100 Yukis at $500 a pop and will install a handful in the Hard Rock Hotel in May. The company is also negotiating with major airports like O'Hare and LAX to add the juicer over the next few months...
While all the murals are accessible on a special website set up by the Boston Pubilc Library, this restoration will soon include an unlikely frill: a kiosk below the scaffolding with a webcam that will broadcast all the touch-ups live to that site...
...Concept: When closed, the kiosk is a sort of electronic bulletin board that displays information about events in the neighborhood, e-mailed in by local businesses. When someone approaches, the kiosk opens up so the user can recharge a mobile phone, download information from the Internet or, yes, even make a telephone call. The flowerlike structure also provides shelter and light (from the tips of its petals) while monitoring pollution. Says SHoP's Gregg Pasquarelli:"We see it as halfway between a tree and a piece of sculpture...