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Pietz Prove
@gopietz · Media Computer Science Student
the idea of a smart trash can doesn't sound too bad. also, to track the trash youre producing. but do i really want to scan every item i put in it? probably not.
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Kieran Daniels
@kieran_daniels · CEO, TopAgent.io
@gopietz you dont need to. you can throw anything away if you hold an item in front of it it will scan it; if you throw it in the can it wont -- if it doesnt have a barcode you hold it for 2 seconds and it prompts you to say with your voice what to add to your list - it's actually brilliant
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Michal Subel
@michal_subel · Building digital products
@gopietz Assuming if you want technology to help you track the items you throw away/may want to buy, you have to let the computer know at some point what that was. AFAIK there is no technology that would be able to recognize the products without asking the consumer to make a bit of extra effort.
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Michal Subel
@michal_subel · Building digital products
@gopietz yes, I'm aware of Amazon Go, but it so far: a) it is limited to a specific physical space packed with sensors. Perhaps, future homes will be equipped with all those sensors but you cannot really compare that with $19 device you can put next to any trash can b) we have not data about its accuracy. As far as I understand how Amazon Go works, it is uses machine learning algorithms that guess what each person bought in cases, where sensors don't provide enough data. ML works only if there's sufficiently big data sets (thousands of consumers). Data from a single household may not be enough c) certain things work well for a certain scale. For example, the cost of a weight sensor or camera that is built into a shelf may be justifiable for a shelf that stores bulk quantities of a certain product, but not justifiable for a tiny space on your kitchen shelf that stores a single jar of jam.
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