October 16 2015, 16:22

I realized that for many years I haven’t been using Yandex search at all, as almost all of my queries are global, and all about Mail.ru services. From Yandex, only the Navigator and the Market are invaluable. I never had Kaspersky installed because it slows down the system. I don’t use abbyy products. I can’t bring myself to like 1C.

Somehow, I’m a bad patriot.

October 12 2015, 17:41

Interesting material about a working prototype of an electric bicycle created in Russia, capable of moving at speeds of nearly 100 km/h and above. I wonder, what are they not mentioning in the video?

October 12 2015, 15:33

Thank you @[100001981064147:2048:Victoria Shintekova] for the tip: “I recommend reading. The Russian translation is a very cool series of articles about natural resources, Earth’s energy balance, climate change in the next 10-50-100 years, the impact of current energy extraction methods, and about Tesla and Elon Musk.”

October 10 2015, 07:04

An interesting experience. I’m at the Savelovsky market. I need to connect my two tablets to the internet. In two buildings, where electronics are sold, I barely found a place selling SIM cards – it’s a real rarity (going out to the metro was inconvenient and far). Found Yota cards at “Startmaster.” The complete setup took 1 hour 15 minutes (!) and 1000 rubles (500 each).

Firstly, you can’t buy a card without registering it. The registration has to be done only on the devices where they will be used. To register, you need apps from the app store/market, but to download them, you need the internet. To have the internet, you need either an un-purchased card (oops) or Wi-Fi. The sellers don’t have Wi-Fi. I shared the internet from my phone. For registration, you need the Yota/Megafon network. It doesn’t catch inside the store, so you need to go outside. Additionally, you need to manually configure something called an access point in Yota – the sellers went to look up the settings on the Yota website. The apps connect to Yota servers intermittently.

Now I understand why no one sells Yota cards there. But I still don’t understand why they don’t sell ready-to-use kits from other providers.

October 07 2015, 02:04

Interactive fitting room from Teamidea

An eye-stopper at our SAP Forum booth: our experiment with RFID, “interactive fitting room”. Upon entering the “fitting room”, the system detects which clothes are inside the fitting room, and the mirror displays information about the products, recommendations, related looks, and other useful information.

From the fitting room, you can order a different color, size, or recommended item. In this case, a push notification is sent to the consultant’s phone in the sales area, which they confirm, and the screen in the fitting room displays that the consultant has acknowledged the request and they are either bringing the item or not.