Now I've seen it all. A German grocery store has developed an application that allows you to scan barcodes of products your purchasing with the camera of your Nokia N82. This will completely automate the process of checking out at the grocery store. Once your done shopping and scanning your products you place your N82 under a scanner and the machine tells you how much you owe. Pretty nuts right? Check out the video link below...
Nokia N82 in the Supermarket Of The Future
Thanks to the reader Stefan for sending me the email with this link, which I originally read at Atmasphere.net.
This opens the door to so many new technologies that the N82 can take advantage of. What else can you see this being used for?
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3 comments:
i remember watching something about this on BBC's Click... great IMO
Ok, this looks great but...
How does the shop know you haven't put some things in your trolley and you didn't scan them on your phone and you won't get out of the shop without paying for it.
@JeremK
All items have a barcode with inthe packaging (i think) so it can track how much of an item they still have in stock etc, they might use this to also make sure nothing leaves the store without being paid for
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