opinionated alchemist

I just posted a couple of days ago my thoughts about the future of hospitality on my personal website dominikschachtsiek.wordpress.com . And I just posted an update regarding privacy concerns. Hope you like it and read the full article on my sister site: Google Glass + Face Recognition * (Hospitality Industry) = Privacy Concerns? I have just finished my last post about innovation in the hospitality industry through google glass and face recognition, when I researched how far we are with FR. In my researches about face recognition, one point came regularly up: privacy concerns! And Google Glass would even worsen this points, because they are clearly much more mobile than any CCTV camera installed… anywhere. Hence: would it be really that bad? I think it would be quite useless, if you are closing on this topic on a philosophical way. However we have to understand, what we are doing for the moment: A lot of bars [definitely in the UAE] have CCTV cameras installed. Gue...

Here a video of the latest gadget, which is in the latest process of development: Google Glass. I have published an article about the use of it. Following a excerpt of it… you can read the whole piece on my website dominikschachtsiek.wordpress.com : The last big thing should have been interactive menus. And really – slowly some of the most innovative venues are implementing those. Unfortunately there are not a lot of restauranteurs, which completely understood this technology. Instead of simplify the experience, they implement an electronic menu to become geeky; at an expense of the customer. The investment into iPad [or other tablet] menus, doesn’t only include the devises themselves. One massive part of the investment goes towards the human-machine interface. It doesn’t make any sense to use the tablet as e-reader. It just makes sense to use it to give the guest a rich experience and always show the customer, what he/she wants. I have pointed this already out be...