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1247 points mangoman | 2 comments | 05 Dec 16 14:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.471s | source
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MatekCopatek ◴[05 Dec 16 15:23 UTC] No.13105865[source]▶
When I started reading the description, I thought: "someone finally delivered on that RFID pitch of just walking out of the store". Was surprised that it's actually computer vision.
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1. swalsh ◴[05 Dec 16 17:09 UTC] No.13106959[source]▶
The problem is RFID, while cheap... is not cheap enough. It's still most economical to keep RFID on the case level.

It's also really easy to take the RFID tag out of a product. Machine vision is likely the cheaper/more secure approach.

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2. kristofferR ◴[05 Dec 16 17:23 UTC] No.13107122[source]▶
This doesn't seem like the kind of store concept where 10c/product would be too expensive.