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No longer the stuff of science fiction, IoT is becoming more pervasive -- even in the home. But imagine its possibilities for consumers over the next few years.
Not barcode scanning -- but scanning of actual food to determine the ingredients including additives, potential allergens, and where the food came from. Students at the MIT Media Lab are working on a mechanism that will trace produce, determine ingredients, or identify crop disease.
German lighting manufacturer Osram in partnership with Consumer Physics has built a scanner that can determine how much cacao is in a bar of chocolate to determine how much cacao is inside. You could scan food to determine the nutritional information of everything you eat.
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