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