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With the advent of molecular gastronomy and modernist cooking, sous vide machines have come into vogue. In short, they cook your vacuum-sealed bags of food (meats, vegetables, whatever), in a bath of warm water kept at a constant temperature. The benefit is supposed to be that your food is never overcooked, and always tender. But there are the critics who say the end result isn’t thaaaaat amazing (and carries some health hazards if you’re not careful). What say you, tech chefs? Is the case for sous vide cooking overstated? More »

As a fat, lazy blogger, I find myself often buying clothes online only to discover that XXL for a designer in Spain is basically a XXS for babies in America. The resulting shape and return fees were enough to drive me to distraction – until I saw this wild robot call the FitBot.

The robot – which is finally in production – essentially takes your measurements and reproduces them in real time. Got a big old tummy and broad shoulders? FitBot will show you what that shirt will look like on you. It can reproduce up to 2,000 body permutations and can be used by, say, an online store to show exactly what a certain shirt will look like on various people.

Barring some sort of live webcam feed, the way stores would use this is to take a shot of every possible permutation on the FitBot dummy. Then, when you tell the shop how grotesque you are (or, in the case of everyone besides me, well-built), the FitBot catalog will spit out the proper image.

No work on availability yet in actual stores but you can see the technology over at fits.me where it’s being offered to retailers. I, for one, welcome our golden clothes-fitting robotic overlords.

via RoboticsTrends

NFC’s potential uses are numerous — contactless mobile payments, automated actions and content sharing to name a few — but aside from its scattered inclusion in a limited number of handsets in the US and overseas, we’ve yet to see it truly take off. Cue Orange France. The wireless carrier’s taking a non-traditional route to spur adoption by sidestepping manufacturers and bringing the near field communication tech to all 27 million of its subscribers directly. To do this, the operator’s implementing Gemalto’s UpTeq SIM, a secure NFC solution the company claims is on par with existing chip-based implementations. Going forward, the enhanced SIMs will be standard issue for new post-paid users throughout the carrier’s home footprint, while current subs will have to contact Orange to specifically request it. Head on past the break to check out the company’s official PR.

Continue reading Orange France begins nationwide NFC SIM rollout in the name of ‘Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité’

Orange France begins nationwide NFC SIM rollout in the name of ‘Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité’ originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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