Smart Self-Service Scales

Roland Piquepaille writes "German researchers have developed intelligent self-service scales for supermarkets, able to recognize fruit or vegetables placed on them (photo). The scales automatically recognize the item being weighed and ask the customer to choose between only those icons that are relevant, such as various kinds of tomatoes. The scales are equipped with a camera and an image evaluation algorithm that compares the image of the item on the scale with images stored in its database. Store managers can add items to the database. The scales are now being tested in about 300 supermarkets across Europe."

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Roland Piquepaille

[suso]

Look kids, its Roland Piquepaille!

Wonder how many liberals do self checkout.

[tjstork]

I wonder how many liberals do self service checkout? Can we get a poll of Obama supporters that do the self service checkout, and in doing so undercut all the -union- labor that works in the supermarkets? If you want to support the Dems, and organized labor, then, you need to support things that support labor and so if a store is backed up because they've got one person doing checkout, then you need to embarrass that store into action. And it helps too, if you pull up to the store in a car built in the USA by union workers. Sure, voting Dem to wash your hands of your own buying decisions might be one way to improve labor, but, I think this Republican that always buys American and waits in the line behind the human checkout does more for labor in the long run... because at least I pay for it.