Facial Recognition Vending at Train Stations
Yesterday the internet buzzed with news that a new vending machine in Japan uses facial recognition technology to 'recommend' drinks to customers. The machine uses sensors to analyse the face of…
Bloggers, Hashtags and Trains
So last week I spent a couple of days at World Travel Market at the ExCel centre in London. Surrounding the event were three Twitter-related tweetups (meet-ups arranged through Twitter).…
Britain’s Railwaywomen Before 1914 | @TurnipRail | A Guest Post
David Turner is a Railway Historian. He's currently studying for a PHD, which finds him surrounded by all kinds of ancient railway documents. You can read his blog at turniprail.blogspot.com…
The Man Who Designs 3D Environments | Conversations on the Train
Richard Fraser designs 3D environments and has an interesting tattoo, here he talks about his job as well as the tattoo while travelling on the train...
Oliver East on ‘Trains Are…Mint’ and that.
Oliver East is mint. And so is his book, Trains are Mint...
World Travel Market Trends 2010
The WTM Trends Report in 2010 saw a future full of smart phones. Timeline predictions are usually off and predictions are often just to please people who really, really like statistics. But it was interesting nonetheless.
8th November 2010 | Last Week In Trains
As a follow up to my previous Last Week In Trains post - this post brings news that last week High Speed 1 was bought by a consortium comprising Borealis…