Archive for March, 2009

Future Store Demo (2009-3-26)

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Video of the services that Future Store in Germany offers.

E-shopping from anywhere? (2009-3-19)

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With advances in RFID and smart technologies, stores will become smart stores and customers will be smart shoppers. At the same time e-shopping will also make great strides and it begs the question as to whether one will ultimately prevail or will retail be a combination of the two? One of the barriers for e-shopping [...]

Smart Shopping (2009-3-12)

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Ed Hill from Intel’s Embedded Communication Group shows a internet-connected kiosk and cash register for retail stores. These could help shoppers find exactly what they didn’t know they were looking for, order items, and have them shipped from the store, and even pay using their smart phone.

100 billion new computers (2009-3-5)

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RFID technology will be used in billions of things in our world – and these tiny chips will also be fused to brain tissue.