Some free advice if you're ever walking down a dark street in Germany anytime soon: Be sure your cell phone is completely charged.Why? Because the country is turning out all the lights to save energy, and they'll only turn on if you point a cellphone at them and command them to do so.
Responsible denizens in Germany have put in place a system Dial4Light that lets cell phone users turn on the street lamps only when someone actually needs illumination.
Some free advice if you're ever walking down a dark street in Germany anytime soon: Be sure your cell phone is completely charged. Why? Because the country is turning out all the lights to save energy, and they'll only turn on if you point a cellphone at them and command them to do so.
For six weird weeks in the fall of 2004, Udo Wächter had an unerring sense of direction. Every morning after he got out of the shower, Wächter, a sysadmin at the University of Osnabrück in Germany, put on a wide beige belt lined with 13 vibrating pads — the same weight-and-gear modules that make a cell phone judder. On the outside of the belt were
Leave it to Germany’s Metro Group to get grocery shoppers to take on a more interactive role in buying Froot Loops and bottled water. The giant retailer is testing a cell phone application for use in its “Future Store” that allows customers to use the phone to scan items as they put them in their cart....
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