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Hi, my name's Fraser. I'm currently studying and living in Bristol. I've been here for

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about five years. I'm from Kent originally. And the awesome innovation that caught my

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interest recently is something called an RFID, which is a radio frequency identification.

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And the reason I came across this is I was chatting with my housemate the other day about

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my experience of working in retail when I was 16. So when I was working there, I'd be

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on the deliveries and I'd have to take these all in by hand with a pen and a paper. So

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it was all manual. And then I'd have to log that into the computer myself at the end of

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my shift, which more often than not took hours. But he does the same thing. He has to take

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in a delivery where he's working at now. And they've got this system that locates and identifies

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things based on location. So when he gets a delivery in, he'll use this gun and he'll

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scan the thing and all the stock levels go into the system automatically. And because

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they've all got their barcodes on, when he wants to find something in the warehouse,

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he simply take the gun in, you log what you want to find, and the gun starts beeping the

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closer you get. So it's kind of like a hot or cold sort of modern day system. But yeah,

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that's my awesome innovation, which I found interesting as much as I found annoying. Because

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yeah, I wasted quite a few hours doing all that stuff. Sweet.