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VTT, UpCode Bring Smart Sensors and Functional Inks to Consumer Goods

The first 'digital beers' will be brought to store shelves.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Soon, consumers will be able to buy, for example, digital beer capable of providing information on the product itself and its production stages with the aid of smart codes and the sensors embedded in the product. Following collaboration between the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and UpCode, the first Finnish consumer goods to see the introduction of sensors and functional inks in the form of additional information, product safety and entertainment will be launched by the end of this ye...

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