Re:“Just walk out” technology by Amazon
by HUSSTECH on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @08:54AM
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https://www.thirdeyelabs.com/
- real customers
- real money
- multiple-sites
Plus they beat Amazon to this concept by a good few months. https://www.thirdeyelabs.com/news. Granted all the focus/attention in this space is in the US. But it is happening elsewhere too.
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Re:“Just walk out” technology by Amazon
by StrictDabbler on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @12:00PM
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"Beat them to this concept"? I can't even remember the first time I heard about this idea. 2003? 1995? I half-suspect I read about the idea in OMNI Magazine.
It's always been a question of when the supporting technology was going to be good enough to make it work. The idea has been around long enough for most of the early patents to expire.
> It's always been a question of when the supporting technology was going to be good enough to make it work.
Yep, I meant more along the lines of how you put it i.e. packaged up and ready to start selling it as a boxed-up/drop-in solution.
IBM had a commercial years ago, probably intended to be based on RFIDs, but same concept.