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IBM RFID Commercial-The Future Supermarket

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What it is

A 2006 IBM commercial depicting a future supermarket where shoppers walk out and RFID automatically charges them for their items.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters cite it as proof that walk-out shopping was envisioned long before Amazon's version, and as an appealing vision of the future.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “so "I want to live in this world" that became one of my favorites even today”

    IBM's 2006 self-checkout ad envisioned a cool future.

    3x35r22m4u, 2024-01 · Strong recommendation · in “The failure of self-checkout technology”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: rfid, commercial, self-checkout, ibm, retail

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