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1247 points mangoman | 1 comments | 05 Dec 16 14:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.241s | source
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blackaspen ◴[05 Dec 16 15:27 UTC] No.13105919[source]▶
Here's an ad from IBM circa 2006 predicting(?) this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob532iEpqk

Crazy to think we're actually here now. And even sans-RFID.

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1. Animats ◴[05 Dec 16 20:24 UTC] No.13109091[source]▶
I've been expecting that for years. RFID tags capable of being read without collisions were expensive back then and needed a battery. There were problems with reading many tags at once. Those problems have apparently been solved.[1]

I suspect that Amazon has RFID tags on everything in addition to the vision systems. There are existing backup vision systems for retail checkouts, such as LaneHawk. Most of the components for this already exist. Now it's here.

[1] http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs-wm/8475.pdf