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Former Cosmo Editor Donates $30 Million To Stanford & Columbia

Filed Under: Etc. Media Minute Tech Talk

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Wow!

Helen Gurley Brown, the former editor of Cosmo and bestselling author of Sex and the Single Girl, has gifted the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and Stanford’s School of Engineering a whopping $30 million.

The two schools set aside $24 million of the donation to be used to endow a professorship, and to award grants and fellowships. The joint program will be named after Brown and her late husband, David Brown, who attended both schools.

The remaining $6 million will be used to construct a state-of-the-art newsroom in the Columbia journalism school building.

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Digital Mall Kiosks Will Scan Shoppers For A More Personalized Experience

Filed Under: Wacky, Tacky & True Tech Talk Retail Therapy

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Earlier this week, Microsoft presented a new point of sale software at National Retail Federation Conference in New York City that is borderline creepy.

The Windows Embedded POSReady 7 program will use motion capture technology, just like the Kinect for Xbox 360, to scan live data ti estimate gender, height, weight, ethnicity, and age as shoppers walk past store windows.

Based on all those characteristics, retailers can then create personalized live ads for each shopper on the spot.

It has the potential to be cool, but at the same time we can't help but get the heebie-jeebies.

What do U think about this new technology???

Quote Of The Day

Filed Under: Quote of the Day Tech Talk

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"I just do it with my finger. It sounds really retarded, but it’s super, super good fun."

-Designer Giles Deacon on using an iPad to create prints for his pre-fall collection.

[Image via WENN.]

Be A Smart Santa With JCPenney

Filed Under: Tech Talk Retail Therapy JCPenney

JCPenney's giving their techno-savvy holiday shoppers a fun new way to personalize their gifts this season.

For every purchase made, the department store will be handing out a "Santa Tag" sticker which contains an individualized QR code. The recipient can then scan the code with any QR code reader app to hear a personalized message from the gift giver.

Pretty cool.

See how it works in the clip (above)!

Microsoft Envisions Wasteless Future With Translating Eyeglasses

Filed Under: Tech Talk

With everyone talking about Siri, robotic take-over, iThis and iThat, it's hard not to wonder where the future will take us.

And while none of us can ever really know for sure until it happens, we definitely know what Microsoft is dreaming up.

They envision a world full of technological productivity. No need for a lot of paper, more efficient computing, and eyeglasses that translate the foreign voices around you!

It's futuristic fashion, and we love it.

Watch this inventive little film above and enjoy!

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