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The most underrated new feature of iPod nano(4G)
- 2008-09-30 (火)
I have just recently found out that iPod nano speaks.
Well, it doesn't do any on-the-fly voice synthesis but if you check the “Enable spoken menus for accessibility" on your iTunes, it does generate the voices for each and every meny on your iPod plus each and every artist and songs, so you don't need to take out you iPod to check which song is playing.
The detail is explained here: Apple Accessibility
I have an iPhone myself, but I bought the new iPod nano just for this feature and am very happy with it ;-)
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self-checkout cashier au japan
- 2008-09-30 (火)
I recently found they have self-checkout cashier at RELUCK DELI &CAFE at Gate-city Osaki; the place is rather a small size supermarket with deli & cafe.
After a few minutes search, I found self-checkout cashier are found at WALMART, etc. in the US as well but what's so amazing about RELUCK is how they trust their customers:
1. the place have such wide and open exit (no doors) without anyone checking what's within the customers' bag
2. the self-check out cashier is so close to the exit
3. unlike the self-checkout cashier at WALMART, there is no machine checking the weight of your groceries as mentioned in this blog post
The system is totally trust base.
Of course, this is only possible because the store is located within Gate-city Osaki, a building complex where such well-known corporation as Sony and Adobe reside; most of the people found there are the employees of such big companies and they wouldn't risk the chance of becoming criminals.
Another cool thing with RELUCK's self-checkout cashier is that you would pay them using the Japan's famous Osaifu-keitai (i.e. RFID application for e-wallet built into most Japanese mobile phones).
If you choose to go self-checout at RELUCK, you would...
1. place your phone on the card reader
2. scan the barcodes of every grocery you are buying
3. check the total price and press "OK"
that's it.
It is one of the places you should check out, if you have an osaifu keitai and a chance to visit Osaki.
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checking out Posterous
- 2008-09-01 (月)
When I went to visit "DESIGN BUSSAN NIPPON" today with hiratomo, he mentioned about a service called Posterous.
I am checking it out right now.
I hate receiving e-mails but I have to admit 'sending out an e-mail' is the easiest way to post things.
It's also great that you can multi-post your e-mail on several services at the same time.
I hate waiting for publishing/rebuilding.
Even worth is having a left-open windows with un-posted messages because of the server's down time.
Posterous might solve those problems.
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Nobuyuki Hayashi 林信行
Tokyo based IT journalist and consultant. http://twitter.com/nobi
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