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Imagine integrating the convenience of online shopping into the physical world. Intel is one step ahead, creating virtual in-store experiences that will transform the way we shop. TIME takes a look at eight of Intel’s interactive shopping solutions unveiled at the 2012 National Retail Federation Convention.
Since the 1920s, young people everywhere have been dropping coins into music machines, giving them the power to select the tunes that will set the mood or get the party started.
Technology has undeniably changed the way we communicate, read, play and even how we live, but for the most part, these shifts have focused primarily in the online world. Not anymore.
Lonely hearts, listen up: German designer Stefan Ulrich has created a robot that he believes could one day replace our societal need for real-life human relationships. Funktionide — a white, shapeless, pillow-like object — was developed using artificial muscle technology, otherwise known as electroactive polymers, which react to pressure, skin temperature and color to produce [...]
