How cool is the ability to have your phone tell you how to take care of the specific plants you purchase? Beginning in Spring 2011 Lowe’s will tag its nursery plants with smart tags that download plant information to your smart phone. For the Holiday Season 2010, Lowe’s Christmas Trees and Poinsettias will feature the tags. Click here for an Example.
Lowe’s is the first large home improvement store to roll out this new technology. I can foresee WiFi enabled stores loading coupons and information customized to individual shoppers needs in the future. From our end, we look forward to incorporating pick list for supplies needed to complete our projects and your phone taking that list and finding availability and pricing in your area. The technology is here and deployment will be here sooner than you think.
When I first used PEX, I was really attracted to the manifold systems I was seeing used. So I installed a manifold and I am glad I did. Each of my faucets has its own shut-off valve, along with toilets, dishwashers and showers. The other night Read More…
A whirlwind of projects went on this past weekend, despite the forecast of rains. All but one of the projects scheduled were exterior and the forecast was for a rainy Saturday and Sunday, but the only rain, was a brief shower Saturday after midnight. So the projects went ahead as scheduled. With GPS in hand, I took the Husqvarna GTH-26 out for its speed trials.For more on the Husqvarna GTH26-48 Click Here Read More…
In our continuing efforts to improve our online service, Latitude3 Media has moved its web host/server to a faster server that is more Read More…
After a week of moving our web servers to a faster dedicated server, I could finally get back into my databases on the SQL server. Which means I could draw the names of the three winners of the Lee Valley $100 Read More…
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