Now the shops see which items you are looking at and what you spend money on – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): A new technology is placed these days on Oslo’s shopping center, which means the shops can follow your pattern shop, radio station P4.

Using small sensors called beacons that communicate with apps on your mobile phone will stores be able to capture information about you.

– How long did you look at the sweater . Where did you go and what did you use the money for. This is sort of technology that can make the items you have seen cheaper for just you, says digital product manager Sølve Grimkelsrud in Clear Channel to P4.

For example, it may appear a personalized and customized advertising message on the advertising screen as the customer passes. Or send a message to customer’s mobile when they approach a store.

For Dagbladet tells Grimkelsrud the technology initially be used at shopping centers in Greater Oslo.

– It is natural to start here, to see how it set in the market, says Grimkelsrud.

tags in apps

For the technology to work, you must have downloaded the app to the store you shop . In addition, the bluetooth switched on.

– It placed a small code in the various apps we use in our system. When you are at or passing one of our digital displays where we have beacons deploy, we can collect data or run out a target message, says Grimkelsrud Dagbladet.

Do you have already downloaded the app is belonging to various stores and chains, it may well be you’ve already agreed that they collect information about you via beacons.

– Positioning Services is something that you very often agree, saying Grimkelsrud.

You do not want this service, there are two ways to avoid it: Either turn off bluetooth when you are in the affected stores, or delete app come theirs.

Skeptical

Inspectorate are skeptical about this kind of information retrieval and advertising.

– This is technology we know from the internet. It is hard to steer away from “cookies” and we fear that it will be just as hard to steer away from this monitoring, says technical director for technology in Inspectorate, Atle Årnes, to P4.

Grimkelsrud says this is a technology that has been here for a while already, but that is only now starting to adopt it in a number of countries.

– In Australia they have in April 2015 rolled out 3,000 beacons, which reaches 90 percent of residents say Grimkelsrud.

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From this giftpølen comes smartphone – NRK

A few kilometers west of the metropolis Baotou in Inner Mongolia is a giant, poisonous lake where chemicals from one of China’s biggest mining towns harbors.

A woman in Baotou Mongolia complain burning eyes, difficulty breathing and chest pain.

Photo: DAVID GRAY / Reuters

The farmers who lived in villages in the former agricultural area had to move. Yields were uselgelige and the animals were sick. Those remaining complaints over pollution and health problems. Now, they are on the sidelines and look beyond a barren landscape.

This lifeless landscape is among the world’s most polluted, but also the key to China’s new wealth. The extraction of the coveted minerals has cost.

“World’s Worst Place”

The pipes spewing polluted water from the smelter at Xinguang.

Photo: DAVID GRAY / Reuters

A row of pipes from smelter ducks on the lake shore. Black mud ejected, as of giant fountains, before it gets into the lake where it is deposited as a tenacious mass of lifeless beaches.

Over the whole is a haze of black, sticky dust from the coal plant.

BBC Future has followed a group of architects and designers from Unknown Fields hit. They have traveled back through the chain of suppliers that ensures modern convenience, and ended up in the barren steppe, Inner Mongolia, which they proclaim to “the world’s worst place.”

Here you can see the artificial lake on Google Maps.

Residents of the village Xingauang outskirts of Baotou complain dirty, bad air, over breathing problems and illnesses which they believe is related to environmental toxins.

An unnamed coal worker takes a rest in Baotou.

Photo: ELIZABETH DALZIEL / AP

They believe life was better before the development of iron and steel works really took off in the 1980s and contributed to China’s vast prosperity. It looks smaller here than in cities like Beijing and Shanghai.

The back of the medal

The source of wealth is also the reason for the misery in Inner Mongolia. The back of the medal is more visible on the plains of Baotou.

Behind the factory seen coal power plant that provides electric power to the smelter in Baotou.

Photo: DAVID GRAY / Reuters

In addition to the extraction and processing of coal, steel and aluminum, is one of the world’s largest deposits of rare elements here.

In the bedrock north of Baotou, in the Gobi desert, located minerals in veins, often together with radioactive and toxic substances.

Toxic waste

Production takes place in large opencast. It is resource-intensive and leaves toxic waste in large quantities. For each tonne mined, is two tons of waste again.

Mining, surface in Baiyunebo mine north of Baoto.

Photo: AP

The recovery of the so-called “rare earths”, which europium, samarium, neodymium, yttrium, cerium and lanthanum, is important in China’s new economy.

Former US dominated this trade. Now China has taken over and accounts for 95 percent of world production. World demand for these minerals increases.

Many of the substances used in all possible advanced technology, including magnets used in including smartphones, TV screens, camera lenses and weapons systems.

And, ironically, in green technology such as wind turbines and electric cars.

The satellite image shows mine in Bayan Obo in the Gobi desert north of Baotou, where the majority of the rare minerals extracted. The blue-black top fields opencast. The dark, elongated bars to the right of the image is landfills. There are also several smaller ponds contaminated wastewater in the area.

Photo: NASA

Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan monument in Baotou.

Photo: Matthew J. Stinson (CC BY-NC 2.0)

When tourists come to Baotou is not to look at the industry or mines, but to see the Great Wall and Genghis Khan Mausoleum, and perhaps to sail on the Yellow River.

Trying shows that the river is heavily polluted by heavy metals, and several of them stemming from Baotou area, according to a report from the University of Inner Mongolia.

Authorities in Baotou plans to clean up, and has started a program to monitor air pollution. New air emissions from coal combustion are not allowed. Over a period of three to five years, the quality of the air be better, writes China Daily. But it is hardly enough to solve the problems in Baotou.

(Please note that the snapshots in the article is from 2010.)

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Your smartphone comes from this giftpølen – NRK

A few kilometers west of the metropolis Baotou in Inner Mongolia is a giant, poisonous lake where chemicals from one of China’s biggest mining towns harbors.

A woman in Baotou Mongolia complain burning eyes, difficulty breathing and chest pain.

Photo: DAVID GRAY / Reuters

The farmers who lived in villages in the former agricultural area had to move. Yields were uselgelige and the animals were sick. Those remaining complaints over pollution and health problems. Now, they are on the sidelines and look beyond a barren landscape.

This lifeless landscape is among the world’s most polluted, but also the key to China’s new wealth. The extraction of the coveted minerals has cost.

“World’s Worst Place”

The pipes spewing polluted water from the smelter at Xinguang.

Photo: DAVID GRAY / Reuters

A row of pipes from smelter ducks on the lake shore. Black mud ejected, as of giant fountains, before it gets into the lake where it is deposited as a tenacious mass of lifeless beaches.

Over the whole is a haze of black, sticky dust from the coal plant.

BBC Future has followed a group of architects and designers from Unknown Fields hit. They have traveled back through the chain of suppliers that ensures modern convenience, and ended up in the barren steppe, Inner Mongolia, which they proclaim to “the world’s worst place.”

Here you can see the artificial lake on Google Maps.

Residents of the village Xingauang outskirts of Baotou complain dirty, bad air, over breathing problems and illnesses which they believe is related to environmental toxins.

An unnamed coal worker takes a rest in Baotou, Mongolia.

Photo: ELIZABETH DALZIEL / AP

They believe life was better before the development of iron and steel works really took off in the 1980s and contributed to China’s vast prosperity. It looks smaller here than in cities like Beijing and Shanghai.

The back of the medal

The source of wealth is also the reason for the misery in Inner Mongolia. The back of the medal is more visible on the plains of Baotou.

Behind the factory seen coal power plant that provides electric power to the smelter in Baotou.

Photo: DAVID GRAY / Reuters

In addition to the extraction and processing of coal, steel and aluminum, is one of the world’s largest deposits of rare elements here.

In the bedrock north of Baotou, in the Gobi desert, located minerals in veins, often together with radioactive and toxic substances.

Toxic waste

Production takes place in large opencast. It is resource-intensive and leaves toxic waste in large quantities. For each tonne mined, is two tons of waste again.

Mining, surface in Baiyunebo mine north of Baoto.

Photo: AP

The recovery of the 17 so-called “rare earths”, which neodymium, yttrium, cerium and lanthanum, is important in China’s new economy.

Former US dominated this trade. Now China has taken over and accounts for 95 percent of world production. World demand for these minerals increases.

Many of the substances used in all possible advanced technology, including smart phones, computer monitors, camera lenses and magnets.

And, ironically, in green technology such as wind turbines and hybrid cars.

The satellite image shows mine in Bayan Obo in the Gobi desert north of Baotou, where the majority of the rare minerals extracted. The blue-black top fields opencast. The dark, elongated bars to the right of the image are ponds where contaminated wastewater discharged.

Photo: NASA

Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan monument in Baotou.

Photo: Matthew J. Stinson (CC BY-NC 2.0)

When tourists come to Baotou is not to look at the industry or mines, but to see the Great Wall and Genghis Khan Mausoleum, and perhaps to sail on the Yellow River.

Trying shows that the river is heavily polluted by heavy metals, and several of them stemming from Baotou area, according to a report from the University of Inner Mongolia.

Authorities in Baotou plans to clean up, and has started a program to monitor air pollution. New air emissions from coal combustion are not allowed. Over a period of three to five years, the quality of the air be better, writes China Daily. But it is hardly enough to solve the problems in Baotou.

(Please note that the snapshots in the article is from 2010.)

Published 07.04.2015, at. 05.42

Gigant loaded with technology – Romsdals Budstikke

Farstad latest subsea vessels “Far Sleipner» baptized in Ålesund on Thursday 9 April. The vessel is higher than the city hall and longer than the grass at Color Line Stadium. Baptism on Thursday April 9th ​​10am at pier on Stornes Kaia North Ålesund.

The vessel, which was built on Langsten in Tomrefjord is loaded with advanced and environmentally friendly technologies.

– Subsea is an important priority for Farstad Shipping, and we aim to take a strong position in this market. “Far Sleipner ‘is a subsea vessels world, which I know will be well received by our clients, says CEO Karl-Johan Bakken of Farstad Shipping in a statement.

New and advanced technology

“Far Sleipner” is the first of three new subsea vessels to be delivered to Farstad Shipping. The vessel, which is primarily designed and built subsea construction projects, can also perform IMR operations (“inspection,” maintenance “and” repair “). “Far Sleipner” is packed with the latest news from the technology front. Among other is one of the most advanced dynamic positioning equipment installed on board, namely Rolls-Royces new DP3 system.

– Positioning resort has triple redundancy and ensure that the vessel using their propellers maintains its position, even if something unforeseen should happen, such as for example that one of two separate machine systems fall out. It allows vessels to complete the operation safely and effectively, says Børge Nakken, chief technology and development in Farstad Shipping.

Corresponds seven tennis courts

“Far Sleipner” is with its 143 meter in length and 50 meters from keel to masthead greatest of Farstad modern fleet of over 60 vessels. The deck has an area of ​​over 1,800 square meters, the equivalent of seven tennis courts, and the vessel’s two powerful offshore cranes can lift up to 350 tons. Both cranes can work down to 3,000 meters water depth and active heave compensation, a feature that automatically keeps the load completely still even in bad weather with large vessel movements.

Crew 130 with separate cabins

At most, “Far Sleipner» operate three ROVs simultaneously, called ROVs. In addition there is space for a crew of 130 people who all have their own cabin.

– This vessel is one of the best we have achieved so far. Our many partners with Vard spearheaded deserve a big thank you for the effort they have put down. Without them this would not have been possible, says Karl-Johan Bakken.

“Far Sleipner” is built by Vard Langsten in Norway based on hulls from Vard Tulcea in Romania and was handed over to Farstad Shipping on 26 March 2015.