Picture this: a quick trip to the local grocery market. Grabbing a few bananas here, a carton of milk there, you make a bee-line to the checkout by cutting down the cereal aisle. What ensues is a sensory overload. Colourful, cartoon-character toting boxes of sugar cranked cereals vie for your attention as you battle through. Now. Throw in this latest weapon of packaging design. Wireless electronic induction. Sounds great! What is it? It is a great technology advancement that transfers power from one device to another without wires. Fantastic.

So why are they choosing cereal as a starting point? Soon we will have annoying, flashing-billboard-esque boxes of sugary cereals hounding us as we trudge down the aisle. Picture an entire aisle of this effect. I foresee epileptic seizures everywhere! I appears to me that this is counter productive from a green-footprint point of view. The packaging must be significantly more wasteful then how they currently are.

Just wait until the other food products catch on. From dog food to cake mix, this can quickly get ugly and overloaded. Let’s hope that this is one of those techs that realize there are better avenues to expand in…

 
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