The $400 Ikan, which is in beta in New York City, is a bar code scanner that stores information on items in your kitchen you need to replace. When you run out of something that has its own barcode — coffee, milk, grapefruit juice, bread — you pass it under the Ikan scanner, which then stores the information until you have enough items on your list to warrant a trip to the store.
Rather than getting in your car or biking to the store with your shopping list, the Ikan sends the information to its warehouse and the company packs up your essentials from a partnering supermarket and brings them to you. (via Apartment Therapy Unplugged)
Lauded as the future of shopping but it doesn’t bode well for the mom & pop stores does it?
