As their personal freedoms have not seemed to grow much over the past few years, it appears that the mobile sector has. China has been able to churn out a number of home-grown tech companies recently.

From mobile communications to biotech, Chinese companies are demonstrating that they too can produce state-of-the-art products.

Kai Jiang has designed a technology that makes it easier for people to shop.

“Let’s say I go out shopping and I want to buy Johnson and Johnson baby lotion,” he says. “I can simply take a picture of the bottle’s barcode with my mobile phone.

“The mobile phone recognises the barcode immediately and automatically sends a message to a central computer. The computer then conducts a search for all shops in the area carrying this lotion and what price they charge. Source: BBC

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