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Device For Splitting The Bill At A Restaurant Now Patented

You may recall just a few months ago that a "showcased" Google spreadsheet for splitting the bill got some basic math wrong. After we pointed it out, Google Phd.'s apparently got to work and figured out how to properly split a bill. Perhaps part of the problem was that they didn't have a newly approved US patent (found via Slashdot) from IBM on the basic concept of splitting the bill. The patent is actually for a device at a restaurant table, where multiple patrons can input how much they want to pay and the device keeps track to make sure the entire bill is paid. As the patent notes, earlier inventions allowed patrons to pay at the table. What was new about this patent, was the splitting of the bill part. The USPTO had originally rejected the patent, but that so-called "final rejection" was just overruled.

Getting hydrogen from water without precious metals

One of the most hotly pursued areas of green energy technology is the search for an economical and practical method of splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen. The main target product, hydrogen, is a clean and energy-rich fuel that could substitute for fossil fuels in many contexts. Water is an obvious source of hydrogen, and it may be possible to produce hydrogen using light energy in a renewable and sustainable fashion. In today's issue of Nature Materials, a team of German, Chinese, and Japanese scientists, led by Xinchen Wang, got one step closer to an fully sustainable method for splitting water.

Side-splitting laughs at Manukau Festival of Arts

There’s still plenty to laugh about at the comedy events scheduled during the final week of the Manukau Festival of Arts.

IBM 'splitting the bill' device gets a patent

A bizarre patents has been given the go ahead in the US, which involves a device that can split restaurant bills for you.

IBM patents system for splitting the check

The waiter deposits a $200 check and an uncomfortable silence envelops the table. Glances are exchanged and eyebrows are raised. Who ordered the expensive wine? Who only had a soda and sandwich? Who pays for what? Enter IBM.

IBM Patents System For Splitting The Check

The waiter deposits a $200 check and an uncomfortable silence envelops the table. Glances are exchanged and eyebrows are raised. Who ordered the expensive wine? Who only had a soda and sandwich? Who pays for what? Enter IBM.

Carphone Warehouse confims potential business split

Carphone Warehouse chief executive Charles Dunstone has confirmed that he is looking at splitting the retail and broadband arms of the business as the company reported EBITDA growth of 51 per cent to £112 million in the 26 weeks to September 27.

'I'm NOT getting a divorce,' says Peter Andre as he tries to play down split rumours

The Australian flew into Los Angeles alone on Monday amid rumours he was splitting from the glamour girl.

5 Reasons Why the Resistance 2 Beta Sucks

Whilst that is our personal 'deathmatch', the Resistance 2 Beta has created a 'team deathmatch' by splitting us straight down the middle.

Faith No More - Faith No More Dismiss Comeback Rumours

Eighties rockers FAITH NO MORE have dismissed rumours they are planning a reunion, 10 years after splitting.

IBM's But-I-Only-Got-The-Soup Patent

theodp writes "In an Onion-worthy move, the USPTO has decided that IBM inventors deserve a patent for splitting a restaurant bill. Ending an 8+ year battle with the USPTO, self-anointed patent system savior IBM got a less-than-impressed USPTO Examiner's final rejection overruled in June and snagged US Patent No. 7,457,767 Tuesday for its Pay at the Table System. From the patent: 'Though US Pat. No. 5,933,812 to Meyer, et al. discussed previously provides for an entire table of patrons to pay the total bill using a credit card, including the gratuity, it does not provide an ability for the check to be split among the various patrons, and for those individual patrons to then pay their desired portion of the bill. This deficiency is addressed by the present invention.

KICC qualify to play in premier cricket league

KICC secured qualification to the top cricket league after rain interrupted the hopes of rivals Patidar and Kutchimadu by washing out their Kyambogo contest and splitting the points into half.

If this Jen rumour is true, we?re VERY jealous

Some people seem to think Jennifer Aniston has a disastrous love life – but we totally disagree. After all, how many of us can say we’ve been married to Brad Pitt? And if this latest story coming out of the US is true, she’s having a hell of a good time now too. After splitting from John Mayer, Jen was linked to hot actor Gerard Butler – but now that she seems to be rekindling things with John, it seems Gerard isn’t off the menu either – she managed to find time for drinks with Gerard last week and apparently they got very cosy. In fact, sources say she’s playing the two off against each other! Hmm, that doesn’t sound needy and desperate to us – it sounds fun. As long as nobody ever does it us anyway. So, John or Gerard? It’s a toughie…

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Inside Dean Kamen's Seceded Island of Geekery

mattnyc99 writes "The new issue of Esquire has a long, in-depth, intricate profile of Dean Kamen and his quest to invent a better world. Earlier this month, we discussed Kamen's Sterling-electric car, but this piece goes into much more detail about how that engine works — he got the original idea from the upmodded Henry Ford artifact in the basement of his insane island lab — and about how his inventions often go overlooked, including the Slingshot water purifier that Stephen Colbert made famous but that no one has actually bought yet. Quoting: 'To get the Slingshot to the 20 percent of the world that doesn't have electricity, Kamen came up with the idea of splitting it in half. Leaving the Stirling aside, he would try to develop a market for his distiller in parts of the developing world that have electricity but not reliable clean w

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