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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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Shopping with the Smart Cart: DigInfo
Fujitsu have upgraded their Smart Cart system using the latest in wireless technology. Using the IC chip within a mobile phone as a customer loyalty card, the system can display a range of personalized information. It can also display the carts location in the store and using RFID technology keep a record of the items [...]
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A smart cash register from Intel
Mixing real life shopping with the Internet’s “up-selling” capabilities, Intel’s cash register is able to recognize you and give Amazon-esque recommendations, based on things you’ve purchased in the past. Frog Design is responsible for the hardware: making this 3-touchscreen terminal work with Intel’s newest processors. The touchscreen works in concert with RFID cards and salespeople [...]
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Retail vision, logistics, & supplies in 2030
Perspectives for Food in 2030 by Dr. Gerd Wolfram – Managing Director MGI METRO Group Information Technology A vision for the future of retailing by Metro Group. http://ec.europa.eu/research/conferences/2007/food2030/docs/food-2030-gerd-wolfram_en.pdf [pdf]
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Smart Info Terminal from Future Store
Interactive terminals and tasting stations turn daily shopping into an experience to savor. Terminals offer additional information like detailed nutritional values, seasonal recipes, and videos. Customers can also check the precise origin of products, breeding methods, and packaging. For quick navigation the Information Terminal is connected to the Everywhere Display –a projector which shows the [...]
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Is this how we will shop in a couple of years?
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Smart Check Out
What will payment systems in shops look like in the future. This video shows us how it should work. When this level of service is mainstream, will we laugh when we look back to today, when every item needed to be scanned separately? You be the judge.
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(NFC) to generate $75bn worth of payments
By 2013 one in five mobile phones will ship with a near field communication (NFC) RFID chip for relatively low value purchases (such as refreshments, tickets and food), according to the latest projection from Juniper Research. The firm cited standards developments as removing a barrier to adoption, though NFC use is expected to be light [...]
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