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Are RFID tags leading to a surveillance culture?
Radio frequency identification chips are already widely used in supermarkets and shops for the purpose of stock control, but some people fear their use could be widened to monitor the habits and behaviour of ordinary citizens. At the moment, these tags, which are little bigger than a grain of sand, are embedded into pints of [...]
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Shopping in 1999
Clip from the 1967 film 1999 A.D. in which we see the family of the future shopping, paying bills, and using electronic mail from home.
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You are being watched
With hidden cameras seemingly everywhere and RFID tags increasing, what are the implications for our lives? David Lyon is studying the ceiling in an Ottawa coffee shop, searching for hidden cameras. A leading figure in the fast-growing field of surveillance studies, the Queen’s University sociologist is only too aware of the many ways we’re all [...]
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Wising up to smart phones
With smartphones today, we can check what is on the movies and paying for admission. Looking up maps on the fly to find nearby stores and restaurants. Smartphones come with Internet access and range of clever applications and this is changing the way we shop. The growing popularity of Web-enabled smart phones do far more [...]
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Internet retailing and the smart store
The Internet has quickly become a meaningful selling channel in its own right, one that is replacing catalogs and is the biggest retail channel besides store based shopping. Technology and lessons from tracking best practices at retail web sites has the potential to enhance store-based shopping. It is inevitable that the distinction between store based [...]
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Future Store Demo
Video of the services that Future Store in Germany offers.
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E-shopping from anywhere?
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 [...]
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100 billion new computers
RFID technology will be used in billions of things in our world – and these tiny chips will also be fused to brain tissue.
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