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The Radish is a portable solar-powered calendar device that was recently introduced at the Google I/O conference. It is designed to reduce paper consumption and automate calendar display outside Google conference rooms.
The goal of Radish is to replace this manual process with a portable device that can wirelessly retrieve and display scheduled events for conference rooms. For Google, this would translate to a savings of about six reams of paper a day, not to mention the printer resources and manual labor required to deliver the paper schedules to the conference room doors. Aaron has also determined that about 20-30% of all reservations are changed during the day, hence the Radish also overcomes the static nature of a paper display with real-time data.
