Photo of your face is all it takes to predict your BMI - tech - 05 June 2013 - New Scientist - Aurora. THERE'S a lot you can tell from a face – and now there's one more thing: body mass index.
Software that can predict your BMI from a snapshot of your face could turn a simple headshot into a revealing portrait of your build, and even your risk of certain diseases. BMI is a standard health metric that's equal to a person's weight (in kilograms) divided by the square of their height (in metres). Someone with a BMI over 30 is acknowledged as obese and below 18.5 as underweight. How we perceive someone's weight based on images of their face is strongly correlated with actual body weight and associated health risks (Perception, doi.org/c67jd5).
Building on that knowledge, Guodong Guo and colleagues at West Virginia University in Morgantown have now produced an algorithm that can analyse a mugshot and predict that person's BMI. That's just a first attempt, Guo says. "This could be used in smart health applications, relating face images to BMI and associated health risks," Guo says. NettoApp. Die kaufDA App.
Gutscheine, Coupons & Aktionen im PAYBACK Bonusprogramm. Nutrino. Nutrino. Shopmium Raises $5.6M To Take Its Coupon-Powered Product Discovery App International. Shopmium has closed a $5.6 million Series B funding round, with backing from Ventech, Accel Partners and ISAI, to roll its product discovery apps into new markets — pushing outside its home market of France.
The funding is the second swathe of external financing for the startup, with Accel and ISAI kicking in $2.1 million back in 2011. Prior to that the founders also invested undisclosed seed funding. Shopmium co-founder and CEO Eli Curetti told TechCrunch the startup plans to launch in one new market later this year and a second market next year. He said it’s still undecided on exactly which markets it will expand to but said the likely candidates are the U.K. and the U.S. Since launching around 18 months ago, Shopmium has amassed around 550,000 users in France (it’s on Android and iOS), and has attracted campaigns from 140 brands.
“Mobile couponing is not the centre of it. Collaborative Gastronomy? Cookening Lets Tourists Dine In A Local’s Own Home. In years to come, when we look back, it’s only then that we’ll know if Collaborative Consumption really is a movement or if history deems it to be the hollow marketing term that it sometimes appears to be.
But in the midst of things, it’s hard not to think that something pretty interesting is happening, specifically relating to the issue of trust. Airbnb and its European rival 9flats, for example, got users used to the idea of inviting strangers into their home. Meanwhile, Housebites enables people to sell home-cooked meals as an alternative to a take-out. Launching today is Cookening, a new French startup co-founded by Cédric Giorgi (previously co-editor of TechCrunch France) that combines elements of both Airbnb and Housebites. Starting with France first, a country known for its gastronomy, it enables locals to be matched with foreigners — tourists in particular — so they can invite them into their homes to experience an authentic, in this case French, home dining experience. Shopmium Raises $5.6M To Take Its Coupon-Powered Product Discovery App International. Collaborative Gastronomy? Cookening Lets Tourists Dine In A Local’s Own Home.
Codemasters Japan to promote video game via NFC. Supermarket splashes out on tasty new print ads. There's nothing quite like a glass of fresh, ice-cold water straight from the fridge.
Aware of this, Latin American supermarket Exito recently developed a special bottle with seven layers, designed to preserve the taste of the H2O inside. In a print campaign to promote the new product, advertising agency Sancho BBDO developed this clever series of ads, featuring some of the more pungent things one might keep in the fridge, including salmon and green onions, being poured into glass containers. The message is simple. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Technology News & Features - RFID Journal - Aurora. Moxieretailredefined - Home - Aurora. Monitoring of customer behavior in supermarkets through RFID. In order to better organize the presentation of the product sales area, a Canadian supermarket has experienced an RFID solution to trace the behavior of customers.
The tested Moxie Retail RFID solution can notice the customer’s movements on the sales floor with RFID labels mounted on the carriage. The solution was developed for Moxie Retail in 2011 by Academia RFID Centre of Excellence. After an essay on movement tracking caddies through a supermarket in Toronto based on RFID tags, Moxie Retail is currently installing its solution in two Canadian retailers. The system has since been installed in other stores. Moxie Retail wished to establish a catalog of behaviors specific to certain sections of the sales floor of a commercial site, and on products displayed in each section.
Tesco Korea points to the future of mobile grocery shopping. By Sarah Clark • nfcworld.com • Published 23 June 2011, 12:15 • Last updated 23 June 2011, 12:58.
Tesco: NFC payments are too complex and offer too few benefits. By Rian Boden • nfcworld.com • Published April 24th, 2013 • Last updated 28 April 2013, 12:48 “NFC was revolutionary 10 years ago but I think it just might have passed its sell-by date”, the retail giant’s Lyndon Lee told attendees at a mobile payments conference in London this week.
“We are developing a digital wallet, focusing on marketing and loyalty aspects, but payment may not enter the wallet.” Microsoft Word - Tesi Unicomm - Parise Alberto - La_gestione_delle_attività_di_Marketing_in_un'azienda_della_Grande_Distribuzione_Organizzata.pdf. App Esselunga. Salvatempo. M-POS: What can we expect? The mWallet and new means for card transactions through a mobile channel redefine the landscape of payment.
Actors, technologies, business model… Profile of the m-POS revolution. By Hugues Courcier – SVP Business Development Europe 4GSecure / SCCP Group In the last few years, payment has experienced two profound transformations: • On one hand, the arrival and deployment of mobile payment with “mWallet” offers changed the way merchants operate. This provision of integrated payment with Smartphones or Tablets makes payment easier for consumers. Der Edeka/Rewe-Check - Markencheck. Google Image Result for. Avanade unveils interactive shopping with NFC, augmented reality and Kinect motion sensing. By Karl Dyer • nfcworld.com • Published March 27th, 2013 • Last updated 24 April 2013, 17:03 The Microsoft- and Accenture-owned IT company’s new solution allows consumers to select items promoted on interactive screens and then “drag and drop” them into their mobile phone using simple hand gestures, to collect detailed information about a product or add it to a shopping basket.
INTERACTIVE: Grab & Go kiosk IT consulting company Avanade, a subsidiary of Accenture that is part owned by Microsoft, has developed an interactive shopping solution called Grab & Go that combines NFC, QR codes, augmented reality and the Kinect for Windows motion sensor technology that was first developed for Xbox games. The solution enables users to view and select products from a main screen and then transfer items to their mobile device for review or purchase, all with a Minority Report-style swipe of the hand.
Killing your Startup by Listening to Customers. Payments Cards and Mobile - Payments Industry Intelligence - Aurora. Leaf, The Point-Of-Sale Android Tablet For Brick-And-Mortar Businesses, Launches Its App Store. Leaf, the Cambridge, Mass. -based company that offers a point-of-sale solution based on its own Android tablet for small- to medium-sized businesses, announced that it will soon launch an app store for its service. The company, as its CEO Aron Schwartzkopf told me earlier this week, aims to build an ecosystem for offline merchants that allows them to connect to their consumers at the point of sales. The best way to do this effectively, he believes, is to create an open platform that combines the usual point-of-sale features like sales and inventory management with analytics and, now, an app store that allows third-party developers to hook into Leaf’s backend and create apps for its tablet.
Thanks to its open nature, the Leaf, as Schwartzkopf told me, wants to “get rid of the segregation of all the different devices and platforms” that you can currently find in any given small business (and especially in restaurants). Digitale Innovation - Deutschlands Zurückhaltung stärkt die Monopolisten. Es sagt sich leicht, Deutschland solle nicht den amerikanischen Weg gehen. Diese Warnung ist hierzulande so alt, wie die Wirtschaft der USA überhaupt. Grocery List Generator - General Instructions on how to use the GLG. Welcome to Which? - Aurora. In Coop è arrivata la ”APP SALVATEMPO” Unicoop Firenze. Salvatempo. Self checkout. NCR Selfserv checkout at an IKEA store. Self-checkout (also known as Self-service checkout, or a Semi Attended Customer Activated Terminal (SACAT)) machines provide a mechanism for customers to pay for purchases from a retailer without direct input to the process by the retailer's staff.
They are an alternative to the traditional cashier-staffed checkout. As of the end of 2008, there were 92,600 self-checkout units worldwide. The number is estimated to reach 430,000 units by 2014.[1][dead link] Description[edit] In self-checkout systems, the customer is required to scan the barcodes in their private areas, input the types of items such as fruit and vegetable (usually with a touchscreen display); weigh them, if applicable; and place all scanned items into a "bagging area". Payment by various methods may be accepted by the machines: card via EFTPOS, debit/credit cards, electronic food assistance cards, cash via coin slot and bank note scanner, and in-store gift cards where applicable. Patent US6484939 - Self scanning and check out shopping cart-based electronic advertising system - Google Patents - Aurora.
This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 08/470,033, filed on Jun. 6, 1995, now abandoned, and claims priority of provisional application Ser. No. 60/007,601, filed on Nov. 27, 1995, now abandoned, both of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety. The invention relates to the field of shopping carts and, in particular, to an improved shopping cart handle having an output and input means to input raw data concerning consumer items found on the market and an output display that displays that and related data.
Such a apparatus and associated computer hardware will allow the consumer to input such information as price per unit volume, etc. into a computer and to retrieve refined data e.g. price per unit, etc. from a display associated with the computer. While there are shopping carts that do receive radio frequency communications (U.S. FIG. 1 Overall view of one embodiment of the console and monitor. Strategie von Motorola Solutions: Motorola nach dem Handy-Desaster. Tablets als Alternative: Ikea: Self-Checkout-Systeme in der Kritik: Ikea Deutschland will bei Selbstbedienungs-Kassen bleiben. Qualcuno di voi sa come funziona il sistema PRONTO SPESA DELL'ESSELUNGA quello in cui ti danno lo scanner? - Yahoo! Answers - Aurora. MARK UP - Blog: Esselunga cattura i consumatori puntando sulla qualità totale - Aurora. Registrati gratuitamente per scaricare la versione pdf dell'articolo > 1.
Un brand che gode di una elevata reputazione2. Forget The Register: Stores Use Mobile To Make Sales On The Spot : All Tech Considered. Hide captionA Nordstrom salesperson shows a customer an online selection of shoes on an in-store iPad. Like some other retailers, Nordstrom is using mobile devices to make on-the-spot sales and check companywide product inventory instantly. Courtesy of Nordstrom A Nordstrom salesperson shows a customer an online selection of shoes on an in-store iPad. Like some other retailers, Nordstrom is using mobile devices to make on-the-spot sales and check companywide product inventory instantly. The women's shoe department at Nordstrom's flagship store in Seattle is bustling. The sales associate simply whips out a modified iPod Touch and scans the shoe box's bar code. At department stores like Nordstrom and at other traditional retailers, mobile devices are slowly beginning to supplement, and even replace, other methods of payment.
5, english - SmartStore Shop Software Community.
Barcodes. The Store Of The Future.