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MAKE In This Issue... NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – Customer Service Holograms At Airports Engineer Guy vs. The Smartphone Accelerometer MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup More Recent Articles NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – Customer Service Holograms At Airports NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – Customer Service Holograms At Airports… NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — She smiles, answers questions and can guide you to the nearest restroom or to your connecting flight. But don’t try to shake her hand. That’s because “she” is an avatar, the latest high-tech venture at the three major airports in the New York City area. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey unveiled the device Monday at Newark and La Guardia airports. Those two, along with JFK, will be the first airports in North America to get an avatar this summer. The Port Authority is renting them for about $180,000 for six months. They cost about $250,000 each. According to the Port Authority, more than 100 million travelers pass through the three airports annually. • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Engineer Guy vs. The Smartphone Accelerometer Here, with great fanfare, is the second installment of Engineer Guy Series #4: the MEMS accelerometer. With typical flair, Bill and his production team take us from the basic concept of an accelerometer (using the familiar ball-on-a-spring model), through the analogous silicon device that lets your smartphone tell up from down, all the way to the anisotropic etching techniques used to manufacture these complex, tiny machines. It’s wonders all the way down, with Bill, as usual. [Thanks, Bill!] • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw… Spoil Board from b_light. Translucence from .:madworm:.. Space Marine Kid from Tsabo Tsaboc. Coffee cup fire station – door rolled up from Rumtopf. 4.7mH Inductor from anachrocomputer. Best Heart from modeltrainsfreak. DIY Sous Vide Immersion Cooker in action from smudge_cml. • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • More Recent Articles Dangerous Prototypes at Maker Faire Bay Area NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – Ketchup That Doesn't Get Stuck In The Bottle Mixtape Coffee Table Airsoft Gun Turned Into a Soldering Iron Texting Trapper Saved by a Faraday Cage

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