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...batteries or green tea, boxers or beer. It's all enticingly on display under the fluorescent lights of a truck-sized vending machine parked in the lobby of Tokyo's Shibuya Excel Hotel. The New Economy comes in a variety of offerings, and this is the ultimate in high-tech self-serve. Manufactured by Sanyo Electric, this fully automated mini-convenience store is part of a new generation of vending machines popping up in a country that's long been obsessed with coin-slot culture. Sanyo's Auto Shop Vendor isn't just bigger than the Coke-and-coffee machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vending the Rules | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...from work to nag them to pick up the dry cleaning. (It succeeded zero-generation: yelling real loud.) That begat 2G, which most of us use, though rarely to its full potential, which includes text messaging and sending smiley faces to classmates. (DoCoMo became a renewed symbol of Japanese tech prowess by popularizing those features, especially with the young, through its i-mode service.) 3G is an exponential jump, allowing one to do pretty much anything a PC can, anywhere. Its hype was such that companies spent fortunes to win 3G licenses around the world. Europe attracted the biggest fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...joint task force between MIT and Cal Tech is also working to produce new technology for voting booths...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala and Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Six Months After the 'Roller Coaster' | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

Meanwhile, someone forgot to tell Microsoft that recruiting by tech companies was down. Microsoft has always competed ferociously--no surprise there--for the brightest young minds. That has meant fat offers for students like Neel Murarka, a Cal Poly computer-science major who accepted a $70,000 starting salary--plus a signing bonus and stock options--to join a Microsoft team that will develop new software from the ground up. Antitrust troubles or not, Microsoft is still a cool company, and it wooed Murarka and other hotshot prospects with an all-expenses-paid visit to Hollywood, capped off by tickets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help Still Wanted | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...Grimonprez’s art is more atmospheric than digital. The exhibition’s aims scream high-tech, cool, innovative—but aesthetically, all the gallery offers is three white walls, a yellow lounge seat, a bunch of airline flight magazines and two televisions with a video stand. But then you pop a video into the VCR, take a seat on the lounge cushion, and while waiting for the video to load, grab a magazine. There the art begins...

Author: By Patrick S. Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Race In Digital Space | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

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