German Supermarket of the Future--today
Posted June 30th, 2008 by notesdesign
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Check out this BBC video of the German "Supermarket of the Future," which appears to be an actual working supermarket, not some concept. Microchipped food packages, "intelligent freezers," cell phone bar code interfaces, and even interactive games in the seafood section.
By far the coolest feature is that you scan items (with your cellie) as you collect them; at the end your phone produces a single bar code containing the prices of everything, so you run that over the scanner for a superfast checkout.
To our readers in Germany--have any of you used this yet?
via bbc news
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