No card. No bank. No Problem.
By utilizing the source of funds that carriers have already integrated into every
mobile phone (a monthly bill for post paid phones and stored credit for prepaid phones),
merchants won’t need to collect any customer credit card or bank information to complete their sale.
With paygo, customers simply use their mobile number to authorize their payment.
Merchants who choose paygo can integrate once and begin accepting payments from virtually any mobile phone in the world.
Built for web based merchants, paygo Checkout is a turn-key payment panel that works in any browser and dynamically
displays Pay by Mobile options from hundreds of mobile operators all over the world.
In a unique research collaboration between Stratasys’ Education, R&D departments and MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab, a new process is being developed,
known as 4D Printing. Led by Skylar Tibbits, Self-Assembly Lab Director and trained Architect, Computer Scientist and Artist,
this unique research focuses on developing self-assembly technologies for large-scale structures in our physical environment.
Tibbits’ 4D Printing project is enabled by Stratasys’ Connex multi-material 3D printing technology - with the added capability of embedded
transformation from one shape to another, directly off the 3D printer.
With paygo, customers simply use their mobile number to authorize their payment.
Merchants who choose paygo can integrate once and begin accepting payments from virtually any mobile phone in the world.
Built for web based merchants, paygo Checkout is a turn-key payment panel that works in any browser and dynamically
displays Pay by Mobile options from hundreds of mobile operators all over the world.
How it Works
With Stratasys’ Connex technology, a single print, with multi-material features, can transform from any
1D strand into 3D shape, 2D surface into 3D shape or morph from one 3D shape into another.
Objet Connex multi-material 3D printing technology is an important part of his work –
and is being used extensively in this new process.
The Connex multi material technology allows the researchers to program different material
properties into each of the various particles of the designed geometry and harnesses
the different water-absorbing properties of the materials to activate the self-assembly process.
With water as its activation energy, this technique promises new possibilities for embedding programmability
and simple decision making into non-electronic based materials.
(Imagine robotics-like behavior without the reliance on complex electro-mechanical devices)
Future Applications
Although not commercially available, self-assembly is just a beginning of a whole innovative world of manufacturing with minimum energy.
As environmental, economic, human and other constraints continue to fluctuate, we will eventually need dynamic systems that can respond
with ease and agility. 4D Printing is the first of its kind to offer this exciting capability. This is truly a radical shift in our understanding of structures,
which have up to this point, remained static and rigid (think aerospace, automotive, building industries etc) and will soon be dynamic,
adaptable and tunable for on-demand performance.
The future of smart home appliances promise to make the future home a much more
easy-to-use experience for dwellers. Are there any other ways of using technology
where the concept of smart homes goes far beyond the existing applications to enhance
interaction between emerging devices and human towards smart living applications?
With DigiLabs, we rethought the future living and the digital products and services that supported the experience.
Using a human-centered design approach and our extensive knowledge of cutting-edge technologies, we designed
physical products as well as mobile experiences around smart living spaces.