"The Eolic is a wind-powered foldable generator. Designed by Marcos Madia, Sergio Ohashi and Juan Manuel Pantano. This concept is designed to create an easily foldable power generator to be used in the construction at places where there is no electric service. The generator can also be used to replace the electric service in small housing. All the equipment can be stored together in one package in order to provide an easy operation. It is made of the ultra light materials like aluminum and carbon fiber."
- Bluesun 2600
from Bookmarklet
@vjay 社会服务惩罚?文中的意思是,顾客在排队过程中积累“等待分钟”,然后商家以派员工从事公益活动的方式来兑现这些“等待分钟”。这只是一种兑现方法,当然也可以有算成航空里程、换成购物折扣、捐赠食物等其他兑现方式。为了达到安抚焦躁排队中的顾客,商家也可以选择多雇些员工,多雇些员工的成本或许还比参加“等待分钟”活动要少(兑现成本,硬件设备投资)。中国餐馆就有该方案的雏形,还记得你在很火的餐馆排队,服务生叫号的同时,也每隔段时间发些小点心吗?IDEO现在就是把点心抽象化,把范围扩大到全社会,再加入些慈善的因素,本质都是在痛苦的过程中,给你些许安慰,减轻你的焦躁。
- Yang
@vjay 兑现“等待分钟”不应看作是对商家的惩罚,而应该是它建立品牌、赢得客户的一种手段。因为商家完全有权利不参加活动,尤其是邮局、公交等垄断行业。IDEO的初衷只是减少排队产生的焦躁,既不奢望改善服务、也不企图赋予顾客权利。顾客减少抱怨不是因为拥有惩罚商家的权利,而是得到了“自己的痛苦可惠及他人”的安慰。
- Yang
至于成本问题,在低端行业里(超市、票务等),在伦敦,每小时工资是5英镑,每天工作8小时,日工资40,算上福利之类的,多雇一个员工每天成本80英镑。算这位员工有效工作时间为6小时,处理每个顾客费时10分钟,那么他一天可以接待顾客36位。平均每位顾客等待时间15分钟,那么该雇员共节省了540“等待分钟”。如果不雇他,就需要派另一位员工去干9小时的社工,成本为90英镑。另外,如果派另一员工去干社工了,那么等待分钟还会继续增加。还要加上设备费用、宣传费用、社工管理费用等等,那么多雇一个人的成本就低了。对于高端行业(也就是正式员工工资高)的情况,还应该算进等待时间效益,让排队时间减少,你能接待顾客的数量就越多,你获得的利益就越多,至于那样成本高,我不能断定。餐馆的例子当然是点心便宜,但为什么还有这么多餐馆忙着扩大面积,招聘呢?
- Yang
Vertical axis wind turbines are an intriguing technology that most people still know little about. The turbines we are accustomed to use blades to turn a horizontal axis (which is often housed in the little cupola on the top of the turbine's tall stem). Vertical axis turbines turn a vertical shaft (picture a barber's pole) to generate power. Helix Wind, a US maker of some very slick looking vertical axis wind turbines, has struck a deal with a West African telecom company to power cell phone towers with wind. This allows the towers to operate autonomously without transmission lines or diesel generators. Vertical axis turbines are well suited for crowded urban settings because they can operate in tighter quarters and are purported to be quieter. Helix Wind has announced that it has delivered systems to Eltek NSG, a Nigerian telecom company, for testing on cell towers. US test projects are also expected to be underway by November 2009. Helix Wind claims that its turbines will pay for...
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- Bluesun 2600
We've profiled a lot of celebrity photographers here on the Met, but we haven't seen such stunningly cool photos like these. Is it really possible to take some of our favorite celebrities and make them look even cooler? There's an easy charm to Lorenzo Agius's work, things never look forced. In fact, it seems as though Agius only brings out the God-given personalities of his subjects.
- Emma
from Bookmarklet
Oh, fancy that...you noticed Gwen ~ right next to Johnny *drools* !!! ;p Thanks honey...and I just had a sneaky suspicion you were going to love two in that collection! :* <333
- Emma
Wow, those are ALL awesome (and I mean all in the article not just these three). I'm partial to the Keira Knightley one myself.
- Kenton
"t's great to see how people explore all kinds of different effect in photography. But there are some really familiar ones, like the motion blur, that we should see and appreciate more, and this is the purpose of this post. Motion blur is an awesome way to make some moody, stylish pictures, and these guys really know their thing. For bigger pictures and descriptions, visit each author's page! I really recommend it for the full experience! I hope you enjoy these. Also, I'd like to know if there's any more effects you'd like to see a post of. Cheers! ;)"
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
from Bookmarklet
"This could be very addictive: Google (Google) is teaming up with board game maker Hasbro to launch a Google Maps (Google Maps) version of Monopoly (Monopoly). Monopoly City Streets, which launches Wednesday, allows users to compete in a live, worldwide version of the popular game, creating the biggest Monopoly tournament ever played. It’s an ambitious venture that we’ll confess to being fairly excited about: players will literally be able to buy any street in the world, and compete with every other player on the “board”. You start with 3 million Monopoly dollars, and can build not only hotels and houses but also football stadiums, castles and skyscrapers, reports the UK’s Guardian. Downing Street in the UK will cost $231,000, while Pennsylvania Avenue will cost $2 million."
- Brad Williamson
from Bookmarklet
It sounds like online Sim City to me. Or one of the tycoon games (lemonade tycoon, coffee tycoon, railroad tycoon or something of that sort that lets you start your own business and grow it as a game, soon you will have ads for buy monopoly gold and virtual currency just as they have now for WOW gold.
- TrafficBug
I've been trying to play for 2 hours, I can get to the game screen and it sit goes down. :(
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Sad to say Google didn't anticipate the popularity of this. I just enveloped myself with apple news with hopes it would be up, but no luck.
- Mac64
how on earth do they rate penn. avenue in the millions yet the street in which the UK government resides is only $231,000? Bit of an insult really :P
- alphaxion
oh, for you sim city lovers, check out www.citiesxl.com :)
- alphaxion
Mac64: Just to clarify, this is in no way a Google fail. This is a Hasbro game that is built upon Google Maps. Google may have helped with a bit of the development, but are in no way liable for the FAIL that is the launch of this game. Blame Hasbro ;)
- Kyle Wegner
Lets see how long it takes before asian clickworkers overtake the Monopoly City Streets market.... ;)
- Birger Hartung
I was able to get in long enough to spend my 3M. It was painfully slow, but I was able to snag streets in my neighborhood that I wanted. We'll see if it gets fun as they increase capacity, but this is a crappy situation right now because the best streets will go to the overly patient.
- Jason Wehmhoener
You see the Terms? It says it will only be open until January 2010 :( Then what?
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
"...players will literally be able to buy any street in the world..." - literally?
- Stephan Planken
there's a street in Manchester priced at 570million..
- alphaxion
Mac64, you just made me lol. Not a fake online lol, but a full belly lol.
- Joshua Schnell
I just call it like i see it. This would be great tho if each of these idiots got caught with an iphone like those guys in Pittsburgh http://bit.ly/A564y
- Mac64
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