Hi, my name's Fraser. I'm currently studying and living in Bristol. I've been here for about five years. I'm from Kent originally. And the awesome innovation that caught my interest recently is something called an RFID, which is a radio frequency identification.
And the reason I came across this is I was chatting with my housemate the other day about my experience of working in retail when I was 16. So when I was working there, I'd be on the deliveries and I'd have to take these all in by hand with a pen and a paper. So it was all manual. And then I'd have to log that into the computer myself at the end of my shift, which more often than not took hours.
But he does the same thing. He has to take in a delivery where he's working at now. And they've got this system that locates and identifies things based on location. So when he gets a delivery in, he'll use this gun and he'll scan the thing and all the stock levels go into the system automatically. And because they've all got their barcodes on, when he wants to find something in the warehouse, he simply takes the gun in, you log what you want to find, and the gun starts beeping the closer you get. So it's kind of like a hot or cold sort of modern day system.
But yeah, that's my awesome innovation, which I found interesting as much as I found annoying. Because yeah, I wasted quite a few hours doing all that stuff. Sweet.
