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CNET Update - Amazon's secret Pantry may spice up shopping

2013-12-13
control freaks can now put tracking sensors on anything even on a toothbrush I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update amazon could be exploring new ways to deliver grocery goods to your door but these would be items that you would find at a warehouse club store like Costco or Sam's Club it's called pantry and sources tell us a today that it is set to launch sometime next year pantry will be for amazon prime subscribers and it'll offer a selection of about 2,000 products like cleaning supplies canned and dry goods drinks things that can handle being mailed the pantry program will let you fill up on one pre sized box of stuff and you can order as much as you can fit into the box provided that it's not overly heavy it'll ship for a small fee so that's something to keep watch for in 2014 and now that the Consumer Electronics Show is approaching we start to hear about some interesting new gadgets being developed and a very unique product is coming from a company in France called sense and the product is the mother she's about six inches tall and comes with many sensors that you can put on anything or anywhere even backpacks and toothbrushes these sensors can be programmed to detect different things like motion and temperature you can get alerts when someone's brushing their teeth or when they took their pills you can measure your workout run or tell you when your kid came home and the data it collects is sent back to the mother and you can see all the data on a nap the sense mother comes with a pack of four sensors for about two hundred and twenty dollars and it'll begin shipping in the spring of 2014 we'll be able to take a look at her in person at the CES show next month Netflix shared new details on the viewing habits of its subscribers and most people surveyed our binge watching shows every few weeks that means they're watching between two and six episodes of the same TV show in a single sitting but half of the people surveyed said if they're going on a binge they want someone to watch with them moving on to the world of apps if you have an Android device check out an update to swiftkey it's our favorite Android keyboard and now it added a numbers bar and emoticons also known as emoji now the same icons of food smiley faces and other random objects that are also in android kitkat are in swiftkey and as a shortcut it'll suggest icons when you start typing in a relevant word so if you type pizza you'll see a slice you type kiss you'll see a pair of smoochy lips but the color icons are only for KitKat users right now if your phone has jellybean you'll see black and white icons that's your tech news update and you get more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey
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