Induction powered packaging

Well this stands to make the already terrifying act of going to the supermarket that little bit more seizure-educing;



The boxes are powered via an induction loop, which will allow the automatic monitoring of information such as stock levels, sell-by dates and trends in sales. Whilst this is exciting in terms of data gathering possibilities, unfortunately there is a downside to this technology, as shown in this ungodly light show;



Reblogged from hackaday