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Photos: IBM's store of the future
Photo Photo credit: Julian Goldsmith/silicon.com and the label on the shelf holding the product is changed in less than a minute. One of these is an Electronic Shelf Edge Label (Esel) support network. The IBM... [08 Oct 2008]
Photos: Shopping just got high-tech
Photo Electronic Shelf Edge Labelling (ESEL) is a technology that has clear business benefits but so far has not been widely applied. A number of adventurous technologies were on display at the Retail Solutions Show, which... [27 Jun 2008]
Photos: Welcome to futuristic shopping
Photo The small screen in the shelf gives information on the items around it - such as ingredients and other items that could complement it. This is a digital shelf marker which can be changed remotely... [04 Jun 2008]
Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle
Photo Team Barnard Microsystems - like the majority of the other teams - is combining off-the-shelf components as platforms for bespoke auto navigation and sensory systems. The Grand Challenge is a science and technology... [06 May 2008]
Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone'
Photo The NFC tag on the shelf contains product-specific data which the NFC-enabled phone can read once it is held up to the tag. Near field communications (NFC) technology company Innovision, has been showing off its vision... [04 Apr 2008]
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... [31 Jan 2008]
Photos: Take a peek at Google Street View
Photo The next step might be seeing books on my shelf. However, images such as the one above have raised questions about whether this constitutes a breach of people's privacy. Photo credit: Google This shot shows a young girl... [08 Jun 2007]
Photos: Inside the world's best known RFID bookshop
Photo While BGN's RFID system helps the retailer identify books as they arrive at the store and reduce shrinkage (i.e.goods gone missing), there remains little at present the bookseller can do to recover a book if a shopper picks it up and... [16 Apr 2007]
Photos: Inside BT's R&D labs
Photo The signage can take its information from the RFID tags on the items, so it automatically updates if a new product is put on the shelf. BT's Adastral Park is home to its research and development teams - plus around £1bn... [21 Nov 2006]
Photos: How the table turned techie
Photo When the user gets into bed, they can put their watch-come-personal hub on the shelf. Not only will the shelf charge up the watch, it can display information on screen - such as appointments for the next... [09 Oct 2006]
Photos: Inside the shop of the future
Photo Dubbed Ker'Ching, the shop displays many technologies including RFID, electronic shelf-edge labels, contactless payments and kiosks. Electronic shelf-edge labels can be updated by staff with PDAs. BT has... [08 Aug 2006]
Photos: Inside Huawei's Chinese HQ
Photo This is the automated warehouse - a product is ordered and a robot picks the item off the shelf and takes it for posting. Welcome to Huawei's HQ in Shenzhen, China. This is a small section of the 1.6km2 of land that the... [27 Jun 2006]
Photos: A day in the life of an Amazon.co.uk order
Photo They will handle predominantly electric goods, such as cameras and DVD players, while the Marston Gate centre will continue to offer all of Amazon's goods as well as housing the company's DVD rental business.am Here's my book on the... [26 Aug 2005]
