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Photos: Retailers take stock with video tech

Photo Accenture's Visual Shelf Monitoring system, shown here, uses a camera connected to an object recognition system to rapidly spot missing products and get new stock out. Gaps on shop shelves can cost large retailers more than $4bn-a-year.

Tags: goods, credit, stock, retailers

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[31 Jan 2008]

Photos: Inside the British Library's digital books project

Photo The British Library uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology to make the pages searchable. The British Library is working with Microsoft and imaging company Content Conversion Specialists (CCS) on a massive book digitisation project.

Tags: books, digital, british library

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[27 Sep 2007]

Photos: PDAs in space

Photo It is envisaged that crew-to-crew comms will combine wireless communication systems with VoIP, and the crew-to-system contact would be via speech synthesis and voice recognition software. Astronauts living on the International Space Station (ISS...

Tags: pdas, international, pda, pda-phone

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[29 Jan 2007]

Photos: Iris scanning at the airport

Photo Iris recognition-based biometric technology has now been rolled out at Manchester Airport. The Iris Recognition Immigration System (Iris) will allow registered passengers to enter the UK without queuing to see an immigration officer at passport...

Tags: iris

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[13 Apr 2006]

Photos: MOT database targets illegal cars

Photo Police can use the system to check MOT certificates, and the system will link in with automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) databases which can check against a list of vehicles without MOT certificates in future.

Tags: mot, vosa, dvla

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[07 Apr 2006]