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I've been dying for something like this - but in stores like Walmart. Sometimes, it's not enough to know where "housewares" is, but where a specific product mig
by tomlin 15y ago
I've been dying for something like this - but in stores like Walmart. Sometimes, it's not enough to know where "housewares" is, but where a specific product might be.
I know this goes a bit beyond what Apple is doing here, but I think these types of apps are coming and hopefully sooner.
- mjbellantoni 15y agoI wonder if phones will ever have RFID readers in them? Then I could really see this sort of thing (and more) happening.
- bhousel 15y agoThat's kinda what NFC is.. Some phones are starting to have this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication
- audeyisaacs 15y agoI believe some phones with NFC hardware are already able to read 13.45Mhz ISO 14443 and MiFare cards. EDIT: beat by 2 minutes... http://www.nfc.cc/technology/nfc-tag-types http://www.nfc.cc/technology/nfc-tag-types
- r00fus 15y agoThe only problem is that retail stores are designed to prevent you from getting the one thing you originally went in to get; For most retailers, the customers' convenience necessarily lowers their bottom line.