Friday, March 19, 2010

Extreme Ideas

Chin-ups off High rise

Walking vertically down a wall

Base jump

Extreme Sports

Car Breaks around me as it hits me

Flailing as I fall to the ground from a great height

Running from a boulder

Cowboy Standoff

Zombie Fight

Battelfield

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Research For Assessment!

1.Inamois a restaurant that has embraced a touch screen computer that customers can customize the color and decorations of their tables, read the menu, play games, watch their meal preparation via kitchen web-cam, and even pay their bill the table also allows the calculation of tip!
http://joshspear.com/item/inamo-restaurant-of-the-future/

2. uWink, a social entertainment/dining experience were you can order a meal via touchscreen at the table, customers can also choose to play from a wide variety of games, watch sport events on multiple large television screens, the walls also provide with entertainment by creating an ever changing theme.
http://www.uwink.com/about

3. A Nuremberg restaurant, has fully automated ordering and table service system. The whole restaurant has been connected by a real time computer network. Each table has been connected by metal rails to the kitchen when the order once ready, glides along the rails to customers, driven by gravity. To enable the mechanism to work the kitchen has been placed directly beneath the roof of the multistory restaurant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b79pwb6Wlsc

4. Adour, A touch screen that gives you information about your selected wine and or foods!
http://www.adour-stregis.com/

5.The Redwoods Treehouse, A restaurant that has a complete treehouse theme including a massive treehouse made completely out of redwood
 http://www.yellowtreehouse.co.nz/
1. 3D LCD Table Menu, a device that is embedded into restaurant tables that allows customers to browse the various foods on offer, each meal is displayed in 3D allowing the customers to view the food from multiple angles!
http://www.japantrends.com/tobidasu-3d-table-menu-from-tec/

2. Microsoft Surface, a new device that allows people to wirelessly pay for purchases, look at menus, and also as entertainment purposes making it perfect for restaurant use!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYiHNV8R1jc
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4217348.html

3Scratch And Sniff, A relatively old innovation that allows the user to scratch a pad with a printed image on the front revealing a smell relating to the image, this gives customers an idea of what they will be purchasing!

4. Iphone Billing Application, A new application for the iphone that is available for the Iphone that lets billing for restaurant to be paid, it has all needed functions for billing including credit card information, signature, tips!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqlNt6zXo3E

5. Updating Menu, Another not really new technology, were a screen thats connected to a computer with an inbuilt program that allows it to display a menu were food that can be chosen is chosen with either a simple mouse or a more complex touch screen and relay it to the chefs in the kitchen

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Thursday, March 4, 2010

The Early Bird Gets The Bird!


The early Bird Gets the worm, The scene of a man missing his chance.