等待戈多

????就像大家在海嘯之后的日本看到的那樣，很少有人搶劫。所以在酒吧或飯店給客人一個帶有菜單的iPad，客人多半會把它還給店主。因?yàn)椴慌卤槐I，現(xiàn)在很多飯店都開始用iPhone和iPad作為服務(wù)員的點(diǎn)單設(shè)備。而京都的一家叫Toku的韓國烤肉店則更有特色，它讓顧客直接拿iPad點(diǎn)餐，服務(wù)員就不需要在飯桌邊等候了。

量體選衣

????曾經(jīng)當(dāng)過時裝模特五十嵐馨有一套基于黃金分割律的理論，就是說可能有這樣一種算法，它能用你的關(guān)鍵尺寸和臉部比例算出你最適合哪種時裝。她和在線時尚服飾零售商數(shù)碼時尚（Digital Fashion）合作開發(fā)了這套算法?，F(xiàn)在，神戶的一家百貨公司就借助一款采用了這個理論的應(yīng)用，向顧客推薦服裝。用一臺iPad迅速掃描一下客戶的身材尺寸后，程序就會自動完成剩下的任務(wù)。（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

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Waiting for Godot

????As witnessed in post-tsunami Japan, looting is rare. So, hand out an iPad in a pub with a menu on it, or in a restaurant, and you are very likely to have it returned. Without fear of theft, many restaurants now use iPhones and iPads as order-taking devices (for the waitress). What's unique at Toku, a Korean BBQ restaurant in Kyoto, is it uses the iPad as a menu/ordering system for direct use by customers. It could make waiting on tables obsolete.

Golden threads

????Former fashion model Kaoru Igarashi had a theory, based on the golden mean ratio, that there might be an algorithm capable of calculating what fashion best suits you using your vital stats and facial dimensions. A tie-up with online fashion retailers Digital Fashion generated that algorithm. The result is an app that proves her theory used by a department store in Kobe to recommend suites and dress. An iPad is used to snap the customer, and the program does the rest.