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Internet of things’ to improve infrastructure
Even as much of the tech world fixates on running out of Internet addresses, Deborah Magid from IBM’s venture capital group predicts many more devices not traditionally considered computers will join the Internet. IBM is seeking to work with governments around the world to tackle societal problems on big projects, such as improving water distribution [...]
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Smart Stores Will Make Smarter Shoppers
As retailers are faced with the growing challenge and opportunity to educate consumers, more and more organizations are turning to technology for answers. Although websites can offer a wealth of information on a category such as organic foods, and even specific information and benefits around products within the category, it is difficult to guarantee that [...]
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RFID Microchip TV advertisment
Would you consider an implanted microchip? Some believe that the world is heading for a future where citizens are chipped and as a result will be monitored and even controlled. The chip is seen as the key to the modern world in that if you were unchipped, then doors won’t open for you, (literally and symbolically), [...]
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Virtual Shopping
Imagine shopping using a virtual shopping mall on the Web via your computer, smartphone, or TV, where the products you order are really coming from a dull looking warehouse that lacks all the gloss and decorum of the virtual shopping mall. It could look something like this: Taking this further into the future, my guess [...]
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Store of the Future
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QR Code
A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The “QR” is derived from “Quick Response”, as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes are common in Japan, where they are currently the most popular type [...]
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DIY RFID Implant
Video of a person with a do it yourself RFID implant.
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How smart can MetroCards become?
Use your MetroCard to buy coffee, groceries or gas. This could be the future when the MTA introduces a no-swipe smart card system, which is expected by 2014. New MTA chief Jay Walder helped create London’s popular no-contact Oyster card and is looking to create a variation of it here. There are a lot of [...]
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Smarter shopping
NOTHING, you’d think, would be more dynamic or up-to-the-minute than how we buy and sell. From the early Greek agoras to the modern superstore, markets have always been the most sensitive barometers of economic and societal change. However, today’s retail model is struggling. It’s still largely a system built for the realities of an earlier [...]
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Samsung develops RFID chip for mobile handsets
Samsung Electronics has developed an RFID (radio frequency identification) chip it hopes will turn mobile phones into more useful tools to tell people about the products and services they want. Samsung’s principal innovation in this area has been to design an RFID reader chip that can read different types of RFID tags. Normally, it takes [...]
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