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Amazon Go is one of Amazon's new endeavors which has a main selling point of being a grocery store which you do not need to checkout from. It's motto is "No Line. No Checkout. No, Seriously." With the use of computer vision, sensor fusion, and machine learning, Amazon has supposedly created a system where you can just pick whatever items and then they'll bill your amazon account. This announcement brings about a great number of implications and questions should it see massive success. It brings to question the future of the retail job. Are all the retail jobs going to be outsourced to automation? Are other companies going to try and follow in Amazon's Foot steps? How are those companies going to try and match Amazon? Many companies are already outsourcing their retail jobs to automated checkout services. Pictured bellow is the McDonalds self checkout service which when supplemented to other workers greatly reduces the lines at McDonalds. These self...

The Nintendo switch is indeed an interesting release by Nintendo. It was branded as this hybrid cross between a console and a mobile gaming platform. It tries to be a jack of all trades and master of none. Above we can see the primary two modes it is used in. The console mode where the mobile screen is tucked away into the console port allowing a TV screen to be used and the handheld mode which allows the switch to be used as a mobile gaming device. Before analyzing the functional uses of the Nintendo switch, I like to bring attention to the logo Nintendo has chosen for the switch. The logo is not only visually very similar to the actual device but is also visually very similar to a Ying-yang symbol, alluding to the Asian background which Nintendo comes from. I think it represents the company's product since it brings such a since of familiarity with it by referencing the Ying-Yang symbol and the company's Asian roots. Even though the Nintendo switch has repo...