The Lockwood Letter

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Entries Tagged as 'Technology'

Books from an ATM?

July 6th, 2008 · No Comments

You can now buy printed books from a vending machine.  A  $50,000 machine called Espresso can print a book on demand from any of  thousands of titles.
It will be interesting to see the quality of the product and whether this catches on… can the books printed this way really be as nice as what you’d […]

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Tags: Books · Technology

Minority Report comes to life with smart billboards

May 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Remember the Tom Cruise science fiction movie Minority Report from a few years ago? It was set about 50 years in the future, so there were a lot of fictional, futuristic technologies shown.
One of the things in the movie was billboards and other large ads that displayed an ad targeted to the person near the […]

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Tags: Offline marketing · Technology