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The shops have eyes (eye tracking eyes)
1 Comment  Posted by Sunny on June 04th, 2008

All of us as consumers have long had our purchases watched via loyalty schemes, checkouts even via our credit cards. It seems that the fat cats in big chairs puffing on their fat brown cigars are not content with just knowing what we purchased and instead want to know what we are thinking about purchasing.

We are still a way off mind reading, but new technology from Philips is allowing the mega stores to get an insight into what we are thinking. The new hardware and …