Store owners intent on luring shoppers to drive "out of the way" are instituting a range of enticements, from child-friendly options to high-tech enhancements.
Many observers say that his son, Kim Jong-un, must in contrast show himself to have an astute technological mind, bringing hi-tech enhancements to the lives of his citizens.
Like him, the transhumanist movement — which now tends to focus on high-tech enhancement — is both intriguing and scary.
The topic was a perfect springboard for real life tech-enhancement, and thus Intel Labs "challenged" USC's World Building Media Lab to reimagine the text and to augment its storytelling with new technologies (which included virtual reality helmets, sensor fusion, and the latest in motion tracking tech) to turn an imagination into a narrative tour de force.
The topic was a perfect springboard for real life tech-enhancement, and thus Intel Labs "challenged" USC's World Building Media Lab to reimagine the text and to augment its storytelling with cutting-edge technologies (which included virtual reality helmets, sensor fusion, and the latest in motion tracking tech) to turn an imagination into a narrative tour de force.
One of the latest high-tech mailbox enhancements is a radio communications device that sounds a beep inside the house when the mail arrives at the end of the drive, thus saving the homeowner from any unnecessary expenditure of energy.
From there, the company plans to work on its internal tech and supply-chain enhancements in order to improve its customer experience.
It also includes what Bednar bills as a "self-driving car mode" — where the tech will deploy the touted "enhancements and experiments" without customer approval.
Not all enhancements are high-tech or invasive.
Android game developers and startups looking to make use of enhancements in mobile camera and video tech will probably get the biggest kick out of the Tegra 4i demo, which shows off some of its graphics processing prowess.
An example is its new Xperia Z smartphone which adopts photo tech developed by Sony's digital camera division and video enhancement software created for its Bravia TVs.
