The first supermarket where you can buy virtually

A supermarket chain in South Korea has opened what is the world's first virtual store and purchase it through a conventional smartphone and a special application. The smart phone users simply scan the bar codes of products because the products are not physically on the shelves, as are photographs. The supermarket is called Homeplus (Tesco) and is the second string of the Asian country and offers 500 items, ready to be purchased in its new "store" that is located in the station located in Seoul Seolleung. After scanning products, a home delivery service is giving the compardor in 24 hours.

"You place an order when you go to work in the morning and can see the items delivered at home when you come home at night," said a spokeswoman for Homeplus.

In fact, consumers don’t have to be anywhere near the virtual store. For example, if you want to order replacements of a bottle of water that you have in your hand, you don’t have to stop by the subway station. You simply scan the bottle’s barcode with the Homeplus app. The products are delivered later to home or office.

Currently, only Android smartphone users will be able to use the service that launched last week. Not that Homeplus hasn’t made an app iPhone, it’s just Steve Jobs and Co. hasn’t approved it yet.

Noah, shelter to survive a tsunami

The Japanese company Cosmo Power Co . has created this refuge that is spherical and can be one of the best solutions to keep us safe in case a tsunami occurs. This floating capsule is made ​​of reinforced fiberglass, has a window and holes for the occupants to breathe. The president of the company that has invented, Shoji Tanaka, is 1.2 meters in diameter and a capacity for four people. Actually I have a very curious name "Noah", making a clear allusion to Noah's Ark . At the moment have already sold the first two units have been created, but I have orders for 600 capsules more.

The case that turns the iPhone into a projector

The iPhone stores inside a lot of information that would be interesting to see a larger screen, so have devised the Monolith iPhone Case, a housing with integrated projector. Thanks to this case that includes a pico, the Monolith iPhone Case, the iPhone becomes a handy pocket-ready projector to project anywhere. Monolith iPhone Case has a 1900 mAh battery is capable of projecting images at a resolution of 640 × 360, generate a screen up to 60 inches, features a 1000:1 contrast and 12 lumens of brightness. will be available in Japan at the end of the month for around 200 euros.

Ball with 36 cameras for 360 degree panoramic photos

Perform 360-degree panoramic photographs is a difficult task, but this invention called Throwable Panoramic Camera Ball , a ball that has 36 cameras like a mobile phone to get it easily. At the moment a project is only an inventor named Jonas Pfeil and according account on its website seeking funding to mass produce.

Each of the cameras is a 2-megapixel model into action just throw the ball into the air. The results are good, but has yet to improve.