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Amazon's Dash is a Star Trek communicator for grocery shopping |
April 05, 2014
A few lucky customers of the AmazonFresh grocery store will be able to order products just by speaking into the Amazon Dash, a futuristic wand that the company started offering by invitation on Friday.The Dash is a narrow handheld device that talks to a customer’s home Wi-Fi network. When they need an item that AmazonFresh sells, users can press a button on the device and say the name of the product. To buy more of a product that’s already in the house, they can point the Dash at its barcode and scan it.The next time the customer looks at their AmazonFresh account, those items will be ready for ordering, Amazon said.Though designed for rescue from a meatless Monday or a fruitless Friday rather than a hostile planet, the Dash looks a bit like a communicator from the original “Star Trek” TV series. A video on the Dash introduction page shows how it works.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2140440/amazons-dash-is-a-star-trek-communicator-for-grocery-shopping.html#tk.rss_all
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