An App Help Stop Touching Your Faces
An App Help Stop Touching Your Faces
Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?
1 — This new technology will reduce face touching.
Immutouch is a smart band available on iOS and Android for $50 that is designed to help people from touching their face as coronavirus worries continue to grow.
Seattle-based entrepreneurs have taken into consideration the top advice for preventing the spread of the virus, such as avoid touching your mouth, nose, and eyes, and created the smart band that will vibrate if you touch your face.
The smart band has a gravimeter that is directly built into the band and is calibrated to any smartphone while tracking a person’s sensitivity and movements, giving off a vibration as soon as a person’s hand nears their face. (Source: GeekWire)
Why this is important for your business:
Necessity is the mother of invention and difficult times create opportunities for entrepreneurs – particularly those that come up with innovative tech like Immutouch. Maybe it’s something to consider for your workforce?
2— Amazon launched a business selling automated checkout to retailers.
Amazon announced last week that they will be rolling out a new business, selling the technology that drives their cashier-less grocery stores and making it available to other brick-and-mortar retailers.
Rather than scanning an app, Just Walk Out—the name of the technology—allows shoppers to simply insert a credit card into a turnstile in order to enter. As shoppers pick up items, the items will be placed into the customer’s virtual shopping cart.
Once the individual exits the store, their credit card will be billed, completely negating checkout lines or scanning bar codes on items. (Source: Reuters)
