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Japan to create ‘convenience store of the future’ using RFID technology

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Japan to create ‘convenience store of the future’ using  RFID technology

Japan to create ‘convenience store of the future’ using  RFID technology A Major RFID supplier is working with the Japanese government on an initiative that could turn every convenience story in the country unmanned by 2025. The Japanese government is seeking to bring about the ‘convenience store of the future’. This is, in part, in response to a labor force crisis as a result of long-term declining birth rate, with the ageing population especially affecting the retail sector. This has seen the country’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) bring ecosystem partners together to address labor and supply chain...

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Is Graphene Really a Miracle Material?

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Is Graphene Really a Miracle Material?

  A great deal is being written about graphene, in textiles and other industries. We talked to Vorbeck Materials Corp. President & CEO Dr. John Lettow to learn more about what many are characterizing as a miracle material. November 19, 2018 Vorbeck graphene printed antenna tag. Is graphene really a miracle material? The folks at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences seemed to think so! In 2010, they awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov of the University of Manchester in the UK “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.”    In its press release, the committee stated: “Graphene is a thin flake of...

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