Important Innovations Collection

Grocery Shopping with No Checkout Lines Source:  Amazon Amazon Tech - Amazon Go Amazon is introducing a grocery shopping experience with no checkout lines.  Your grocery shopping is monitored by cameras, machine learning and a smartphone app.  When you leave the supermarket, you're automatically billed for your purchases by Amazon. There are no checkout lines, no cashiers.  It's grocery shopping ease through new Amazon technology which it's expected to rollout and expand store operations in the first quarter of 2020.  The base technology is Amazon Go. Amazon Go Amazon is a global retailing behemoth created by entrepreneurs Jeff Bezos and his mother, first to sell books.  It's made Jeff Bezos, by expanding his retail lines way beyond books, into the #1 or #2 richest person in the world.  It's only natural that Bezos would target grocery shopping through his proprietary online technology in a big way.  It looks like he's ready...

Aeroponically Grown Vertical Vegetables and Herbs Source:  Prague University Scientists From Prague University, Important Food Science Czech scientists from Prague University have created a new lab to experiment on growing food for very constrained and extreme conditions with a lack of water like on Mars.  But the utilization is also for back on Earth to boost agricultural output in places hard hit by urbanization and Climate Change. Marsonaut Experiment The Czech scientists call it the Marsonaut Experiment and it's being led by their top life scientists.  They're using aeroponics which grow plants in the air, without any soil and very little water.  To minimize space, they grow the plants in vertical units stacked one on top of the other. Harvest Time The team has succeeded in growing salad leaves, mint, basil, mustard plants, herbs and radishes.  They enjoyed the fruits of their harvest last week and said it tasted great. Their nex...

IBM's Watson Cooking in the Kitchen Source:  IBM Watson Logo Watson's AI Inspiring Food Innovations at Spain's Cerealto Siro IBM's Watson is dishing up a tasty bit of AI.  Watson is helping a major global player in the food industry - Spain's Cerealto Siro - to create healthier products tailored to the changing nutritional needs and tastes of today's consumers. Through this collaboration, an AI created snack has just gone on sale in the UK. AI Rice Cake Snack Cerealto introduces 250 new cereal products to the global market every year.  Watson AI has been integrated into their food innovation process to spot early trends and inspire new ideas. The new UK snack is rice cakes with pea and lentil - a response to the latest consumer preference for organic and high protein ingredients.  Cerealto sells 4 million food products a year. Those numbers may increase with the new AI Chef in the kitchen.  For a free Kindle borrow of my book "How to Use AI ...