Posted 03.09.2012 at 2:24 pm
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Toshiba Vegetable Recognizer
Diginfo
This Toshiba scanner, just demonstrated in Japan, knows what vegetables look like -- just hold up your daikon or mizuna to the camera at the cash register, and it tots up the item. No need for stickers on your food, no need to consult a human, no need to even know what kind of onions you're buying. This is the future. The tireless videographers at Diginfo.tv bring us the scoop.
The device comes with a large database of items it can recognize, even from a distance. It can be trained with additional items when necessary.
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I'm still waiting for everything to be tagged with an rfid or whatever, so I can push the whole cart through a scanner and everything is done at once. Imagine the time saved!
I have a love hate relationship with Automated Cashier Machines. When I read about the technology, I think it is really cool and inventive, so kudos for that. It great helps the company to be more efficient and increase the profit ratio. So the 1% of the human population wins.
And for the rest of humans, less jobs and that just pisses me off!
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I would think the truly wise genius would find more jobs for the public! I am for the 99% humans working for a living!
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Now this article created better item reconigition and I see in the video a human still has a job. This seems to make for faster cashier. This is very cool; just please keep the human worker in the picture too!!!
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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.
I agree with - Robot - but I also think most automatic checkouts are not that smart and don't always do what you want them to do kinda like a phone before the bugs are worked out.
Cool! But I think our world is becoming really lazy!!!
Yeah. Human nature. Work smarter, not harder. Or dont work at all!
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