Monday, August 25, 2008

Vegetable scales with a mind of their own


For now, this common shopping irritant of having to remember the number tag for your groceries at the supermarket is out of the lives of some lucky folks in Europe. And that's attributed to the smart self-service weighing scale, which promises to give these shoppers a unique “weighing experience.”

Developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing IITB in Karlsruhe, this device can automatically recognize the fruit or vegetable that is placed on it and brings up the most appropriate icons on its touch screen interface for you to print out the price label.