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If you have seen the movie Minority Report starring Tom Cruise, you might remember several scenes in the movie where a camera scans the eye of the person and will display advertisements that are relevant to said person. Well it looks like something similar will be happening over in the UK at Tesco, and if you’re planning on shopping at Tesco anytime in the near future, this is an interesting feature you might want to check out. Basically these ads are similar to those found in the movie, where a screen with a built-in camera will be placed at Tesco’s gas stations where it will have the ability to identify users bby their gender, approximate age, and will be able to customize its ads accordingly.

The ads will come from a UK digital media company, Amscreen, who will utilize face-tracking technology made by French company, Quividi that will help identify the traits mentioned above. On top of being able to detect the age and gender of a person, it will also act as a data collection device where it will be able to record how long a person is looking at the ad, allowing companies to modify their ads to make them more effective, although presumably at the start people will be looking at the ads longer due to the novelty of having ads customized to them. It sounds pretty cool and Amscreen is hoping to introduce these screens to Tesco’s supermarket outlets in the future as well. What do you guys think?

Tesco To Start Introducing Face-Scanning Customized Ads At Its Gas Stations original content from Ubergizmo.

Wondering how your old buddy Tesco is faring with the launch of its first branded bit of hardware, the £119 Hudl tablet? Well, according to Tesco’s CEO Phil Clarke, via a tweet from Retail Week’s Jennifer Creevy, not too shabby: the supermarket chain has offloaded about 35,000 of the devices over the past few days. We very much doubt the likes of Google and Amazon, which have never been forthcoming with early sales figures, will be threatened by the number, but it’s surely not a bad start from a retailer that knows more about selling bread and milk than tablets. Incidentally, Amazon’s just dropped the price of its soon to be last-gen 7-inch Fire HD to £119, matching that of the Hudl — if you’ve got no ClubCard points to secure a discount, that is. We now have one of Tesco’s tabs in our possession, so look out for the review. We’re assessing the display by rewatching the entirety of Game of Thrones, however, so it might take a while.

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Source: Jennifer Creevy (Twitter)

Thanks to Android being an open-sourced operating system, it basically means that just about anyone with the resources would be able to create a smartphone or tablet with their own branding, and UK retailer Tesco has announced a new Android tablet in the form of the Hudl, which we guess is pronounced as “huddle”. The tablet is a 7” device and sports a 1.5GHz quad-core chipset under the hood. It will also feature a display resolution of 1440×900, which while isn’t Full HD, should look pretty sharp crammed into a 7” display.

The tablet will also come with WiFi connectivity, 16GB of onboard storage which can be expanded up to 48GB thanks to a microSD card slot. The Hudl will also come with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean preinstalled and will have access to the Google Play store, Tesco’s BlinkBox and Clubcard TV platforms and based on what we can see, appears to be running on a somewhat stock version of Android, which is good news for those who aren’t a fan of companies imposing their own UIs on their devices. Available in a black, blue, purple, and red, the Tesco Hudl tablet will set customers back £119 and will be available via Tesco’s website or physical retail outlets. No word on whether it will be making its way stateside, although we doubt that it would.

7-inch Tesco Hudl Tablet Announced For £119 original content from Ubergizmo.

British supermarket giant, Tesco, is looking to enter the competitive tablet market with their own brand of device. Likely to run Android, the tablet will be similar to the iPad and be available for the public around the holiday season, says The Sunday Times, and go on sale alongside the Kindle Fire, iPad mini, and […]

Tesco’s grown from supermarket heavyweight to digital content contender thanks to its paid Blinkbox TV / movie and music streaming services, Clubcard TV ad-supported video platform and in-development e-book store. According to The Times, Tesco’s about to get into the hardware business, too, with the launch of homegrown tablet sometime before Christmas. Details of the rumored device are non-existent, but it’s said to come loaded with video, music and e-books, as well as apps for Tesco’s online shopping, banking and Blinkbox services. It’s a completely plausible next step for the company, and would mimic Amazon and Google’s model of selling low-cost hardware, in part, to showcase their digital content offerings. Presumably, there’s also scope for a 3G variant running on Tesco Mobile. We’d guess that if the retailer does release a tablet, it’ll run Android and be extremely budget-friendly — it’ll have to be to go up against the new Nexus 7 and Amazon’s Fire slates (let alone the rumored next-gen). As always, we’ve hit up Tesco for confirmation and comment, and will update you if we hear anything back.

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Source: The Sunday Times (paywalled)