Students at St Martins College London designed the ‘Twice as Fast Trolley,’ conceptually amazing but it’s doubtful that supermarkets would invest in such a thing at present.

The way in which customers can scan and pay as they go along avoids the time waisted in queues is a brilliant idea which will hopefully still be implemented in the future.

An iPhone application developed for 7-Eleven Sweden combines a store locator with coupons for a free coffee and biscotti. After downloading the app, users plug in their phone number and receive a unique coupon code on their iPhone. To claim their coffee, they just show the code to a 7-Eleven clerk; no purchase necessary. The coupon is only valid once, and free coffee in April will be followed by free ice cream in May.

The application, developed by Stockholm-based digital agency Lonely Duck, was downloaded 2,500 times in the week it launched—a considerable number given the size of the Swedish iPhone community, and enough to place it in the top 10 of free app downloads.

7-Eleven hasn’t launched the app in other markets yet, but it’s a smart example for other iPhone-loving retailers to follow: don’t just help (a relatively affluent group of) consumers find your store, but give them a good reason to visit and spend money while they take you up on your generous offer.

Website: www.7-eleven.se
Contact: www.7-eleven.se/kontakt.html

from :http://springwise.com/weekly/2009-04-29.htm#iphone7eleven

Excellent animation + great track + funny ending = FUN!

Scientists are working on a device which works like a car navigation system to help elderly shoppers baffled by changing layouts in aisles.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5241034/Elderly-shoppers-to-get-sat-nav-gadget-to-find-their-way-around-supermarkets.html

A new Visa flow ad?

This is totally new from Dell. Dell, in collabration with Intel, will be launching a brand new way of Group Buy called Dell Swarm. It integrates the social network, group buy into a very interactive, real time experience of online buying.

Originally from :http://techielobang.com/blog/2009/04/25/dell-swarm-72hrs-15-buyers-sneak-preview-video-within/

David after dentist

Chad after dentist

Using geotag data attached to 35 million photos uploaded to Flickr, David Crandall
and colleagues at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, created
accurate global and city maps and identified popular snapping sites.

Many digital photos are now geotagged – stamped with the latitude and longitude coordinates for the location where they were taken. David Crandall
and colleagues at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, have analysed
this data, using 35 million photographs uploaded to the Flickr website.

Crandall’s team found that the data offered a simple way to organise
millions of photos on a global scale. Simply plotting that raw data
onto an empty canvas revealed accurate maps, like this one of the 48
lower states of the US.