From interactive pens to walking screens...
By Julian Goldsmith, 15 February 2008 16:51
This rugged tablet PC from WebDT is so tough it will sustain a drop from four feet. It has no moving parts and storage is Flash-based.
It supports Windows CE and XP. One of the new applications in development is planogram software used to stack shelves to the optimum selling ability.
Tesco is using 7,000 of the units for its picking operations.
Photo credit: Julian Goldsmith
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1. misceng
Tesco may have 7000 tablets to aid picking but this does not stop them failing to pick the items people want. EG In local store Hovis wholemeal thick bread was stocked but the tray was always empty of near empty because customers bought it. The cure was to stop stocking it. On Sunday they had 10 different varieties of chips in vast quantities but no roast potatoes. The device they need is one which tells which items are missing from the shelves.
2. Christopher Lambert
Wireless Pen is a nice idea, but given the speed at what the staff at my local supermarket write at it might still be quicker to key it in.