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[Amazon] has patented designs for a wristband that would track where its workers put their hands in relation to inventory bins and give "haptic feedback" to signal if they have the right bin to retrieve an item or not. The patent documents were first spotted by GeekWire.
The "ultrasonic bracelet", supposed to be a time- and labour-saving device, would work by periodically emitting ultrasonic sound pulses to a receiver, tracking which bin a worker is reaching for and monitoring how efficiently they fulfill orders. The wristband would also send and receive radio transmissions, pinning a worker's location and giving a burst of "haptic feedback", a vibration similar to those found in phones or game controllers, which would tell the employee if they're reaching for the right bin or not.
The approach would eliminate the need for extra time-consuming acts, "such as pushing a button associated with the inventory bin or scanning a barcode associated with the inventory bin," one patent's description reads.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday February 02 2018, @04:07AM (9 children)
They solicit me to apply once a month or so.
And why?
Because Jeff bezos is in league with Satan
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(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Friday February 02 2018, @04:17AM (8 children)
Bezos is Amazon, Washington Post, and Blue Origin. You are thinking of the Zuck.
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(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @04:25AM
At least the Zuck is only spreading fake news and hiding supposed wrongthink. Bezos actually generates fake news.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday February 02 2018, @06:23AM (6 children)
I expect Amazon will buy Facebook someday.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by captain normal on Friday February 02 2018, @06:41AM (2 children)
Do you think Zuck can offer Elon a deal he can't refuse?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmX2VzsB25s [youtube.com]
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @01:45PM (1 child)
No - Elon Musk isn't in it for the money.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday February 02 2018, @02:18PM
Interesting Plausibility that Elon Musk Could Become a Trillionaire with a City on Mars by 2040 [nextbigfuture.com]
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday February 02 2018, @05:15PM (2 children)
Why?
Bezos seems to have made pretty good business choices so far: building the largest retailer on the Internet that's now making Walmart hurt, then getting into cloud computing services and dominating that, Washington Post probably isn't going to be a big money-maker but it probably won't lose any either, Blue Origin isn't winning like SpaceX but it's good to have some competition there, and now he's bought Whole Foods and that looks like it's doing well.
Facebook would cost an absolute fortune now, but it really has nowhere to go but down, IMO. It costs a lot to run, and you can only make so much money selling advertising to people who sit on there and post stupid family photos or posts about what they ate that night. I predict it's eventually going to collapse, and it's probably overvalued right now.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday February 03 2018, @08:46PM (1 child)
He steals from his employees
Amazon won a Supreme Court case in which it's wsrehouhe employees sued for payment for the time they spend waiting to be searched at the ends of their shifts
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:17PM
Ok, but that has nothing to do with Bezos potentially buying Facebook.