Bakery goods POS visual recognition system on trial in Japan

We previously covered a new scanner that can recognize objects by its appearances, eschewing the need for barcodes. Well, the folks over at Brain Corporation have decided to take it a step further with a new system that can detect baked goods. Because baked goods are made by hand and can vary in appearance, the system has been designed to factor in such problems. In addition to recognizing baked goods, it can also be used to identify any other object in the store.

The system is currently being tested at a bakery outlet in Tokyo, Japan; and if all goes well it should roll out to more places soon. Check out a video of the system in action above, courtesy of Diginfo. Pretty impressive stuff.

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PayPal buys Card.io visual credit card scanner platform, is neither Here nor there

PayPal buys Cardio visual credit card scanner platform, is neither Here nor there Thought PayPal was done upping its mobile payment game when it unveiled its triangular Square competitor earlier this year? Think again. Despite Here being, well, here, PayPal’s not satisfied having but one way to scan your plastic, and so it’s snapped up Card.io. In case you’ve forgotten, Card.io gathers credit card info visually using a smartphone’s camera — no scanning dongle required — to save fingers and thumbs from having to enter payment info manually. Oh, and for folks fearing that PayPal would pull the plug on other apps’ access to Card.io’s SDK, not to worry — PayPal assures us that Card.io’s technology will remain available to developers.

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