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Leave it to the Germans to push the fore-front of innovation in the supermarket. Apparently not satisfied with pushing innovative technologies and design in the automotive field, Germans at the country’s “Future Store” supermarket have come up with an interesting way to shop for your groceries. With a few clicks of your mobile phone’s camera, Future Store wants shoppers to take pictures of items’ barcodes.
Just snap pics of the barcodes on all your groceries as you load up the cart. When it comes time to check-out, all the barcodes that you just recorded are tallied up and consolidated in to a barcode. An automated kiosk will take care of scanning the barcode on your cellphone’s display, and prompt you for payment – via cash, credit card, fingerprint, and even NFC in the near future.
Now, if only those Germans could find an innovative way to do away with the shopping cart altogether. Yea, we’re that lazy.
[Via: BBC]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
