Entries tagged with 'technology'
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Pizza Hut Unveils eGiftCards
The online gift cards can be purchased, sent, and redeemed entirely online: giftcards.pizzahut.com. "No mailing, no wrapping, no hassle," says Website the Hut. Bonus: They can also be redeemed in-store or over the phone. [via Fast Food Maven]...Pizza Hut Facebook App Enables Facebook Pizza Orders
"Pizza Hut said it is one of only a few companies using a Facebook application for ordering food, and the only pizza chain to do so. Registered users will be able to browse the entire Pizza Hut menu without leaving Facebook. The application also remembers previous transactions for quick reordering." [Media Post; add Pizza Hut app here]...How Long Would the Large Hadron Collider Take to Defrost a Pizza?
The Large Hadron Collider site. It looks like a big pizza. Scientific American figures it out: According to an old Cosmic Variance post, the power of one of the LHC's proton beams at full energy is 10 trillion watts (TW). (A watt is a joule of energy per second.) A household microwave produces 500 to 1000 watts of power. Let's call it 700 watts. And defrosting a frozen pizza takes about six minutes*. So that's 700 joules/sec x 360 sec = 252,000 joules of energy needed to defrost a pizzaTherefore: 252,000 joules / 10^13 joules per second = 3x10^-8...Using a Pizza Oven to Create Solar Cells
Photograph by Robyn Lee Though the process is still a long way from becoming mass-marketable, Australian PhD student Nicole Kuepper has come up with a way that may bring cheap solar cells to developing countries. Ms. Kuepper developed and patented the iJET solar cell which can be made cheaply at low temperatures using items such as an inkjet printer, nail polish and a pizza oven.The University of NSW student and lecturer hopes it will lead to green energy in developing nations, providing electricity to the world's two billion poorest people. [via Treehugger]...The iPhone Gives Bad Pizza Advice
View Larger Map So I just made a case for getting my greasy hands on a free developer iPhone 3G from Apple. One of my points was that Slice could help improve the device's pizza logic. I thought the thing only needed minor tweaking. Turns out, it needs a lot of help. As Aaron Landry points out, the separate video that really gets down to the nitty gritty on the Maps with GPS feature shows Bob the iPhone Guy starting out in Brooklyn Heights. On Pineapple and Henry streets. He searches for pizza, and the iPhone defaults to John's Pizzeria...Apple, Give Me an iPhone; I'll Give YOU the piPhone
Yeah, you already know that you can use an iPhone to look up all manner of stuff via the Google Maps feature, but with the new 3G iPhone coming out July 11, GPS is added into the mix. I was poking around on the Apple site last week and noticed that the GPS feature page featured an iPhone trained on the location of John's Pizzeria in Times Square. And in the latest video tour, the gesticulating iPhone Guy looks up P-I-Z-Z-A in Manhattan and clicks on John's. (Video, after the jump.)...The Man Who Sold Pizza.com for $2.6 Million
The New York Post has a profile on Chris Clark, the guy who just sold pizza.com at auction for $2.6 million: During the Internet's early days, Clark ran a Web site-consulting service and bought pizza.com hoping to convince a pizzeria to do business with him. There weren't any takers, but he maintained the site as a pizzeria directory ever since, never imagining that his $20 investment would grow into an obscenely large pie with extra dollar signs....Bidding for Pizza.com at $2.6 Million
Got an extra $3 million burning a hole? You'd make me ever so happy if you bid on and won the domain pizza.com for me. It's currently hovering just over $2.6 million right now, and you've got about 19 hours before the auction closes. [from Graham Holliday via Twitter]...Pizza in a Cone: Crispycones
Editor's note: This is the second of two reports today about pizza in a cone. Here's the first: Pizza in a Cone: Kornet Pizza This photo shows the original cardboard cone-holders. Newer holders are pyramidal, smaller, and use less cardboard.Anytime you publish something about pizza cones on the web, Nir Adar will see it. That's how I found myself in the prep kitchen of a food-photography studio in Chelsea this past Tuesday. Adar, the man behind pizza-in-a-cone venture Crispycones, has been following Slice since the first time I mentioned the food product on the site. With a Google alert set...Slice is part of the Foodblog Ad Network. To advertise on this site or across a network of food-related weblogs, click here.
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