For a more detailed look at the relationship between (wo)man and machine, check out the infographic.
Production has been outsourced to China in a bid to keep costs of the bare-bones machine in check.
Robots with machine vision check to see that bottles and jars are filled to the right level, that the tops and caps fit, that the right labels are stuck on (and neatly, mind).
All that the user needs to do is swipe the card at the existing check-out machine and enter a four digit PIN.
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And low unemployment would be a sort of self-perpetuating growth machine This is easy to check plot unemployment against economic cycles (as Ken Fisher and I did in Markets Never Forget or you can view something similar in this infographic).
We're starting things off at the New Museum on the Bowery in Manhattan, where Tim and Brian will be diving deep into the "Ghosts in the Machine" exhibition, to check out pieces like Stan VanDerBeek's Movie-Drome, a dome dreamed up in the mid-60s that foresaw a world in which the viewer is bombarded by visual stimuli.
Students at dozens of colleges, such as Syracuse, American University and Marist College, can check online whether a vacant machine is waiting downstairs and how much time remains on each machine's cycle.
In addition, the railroad does biannual machine inspections of all its rails using equipment that check for proper rail geometry such as the level or curvature on a given set of tracks.
The ability to go back and forth between that information and the actual machine would be useful and might give shoppers less excuse to check out models on their smart phones or iPads while in the store (in the process perhaps spotting a lower price and leaving to buy online).
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Pretty much you bring in your check, show the clerk a valid ID, then on this little machine, I believe is also used for swiping credit and debit cards, the customer inputs their social security number.
Customers could buy Internet time on a card and check email on any number of computers, but most would play the slot machine-style games.
There's no questioning the value of having a small screen to quickly check up on information like email and stock tickers without booting or waking the machine: unfortunately, because Vista is fresh off the block, there aren't a lot of other "gadgets" kicking around.
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