30.6.10

Unilever's Smile Ice Cream Vending Machine

At Cannes 2010


The vending machine has an interesting feature, it comes with a facial recognition that detects your gender, age, mood and even how much you are smiling! Called the "Share Happy" machine, it's sole purpose at Cannes was to deliver free ice cream to those who were smiling. Detected through the "Smile-O-Meter", the machine would show you how much you were smiling and when you could smile no more it would give you a free ice cream.

But beyond the free ice cream, it's actually pretty exciting to think about what type of products a vending machine with this technology might be able to dynamically sell in the future!


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20.6.10

PR2 Robot Plays Pool

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Pretty impressive!!
With only a small team of developers and a week's worth of development, the PR2 can now play pool!
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