A good buddy of mine recently brought my attention to a cool new company he’s been working with called iKan. He’s helping them develop a scalable business model for their flagship product, a counter top pod that allows you to scan your food items and create grocery lists. It scans your items with a UPC barcode scanner and wirelessly logs them into an online account, from which you can place orders with online grocers or print out a shopping list to take to your local store. Furthermore, it has great voice recognition software that allows you to simply say the name of the item in the event that there’s no barcode. iKan surely has the ability to revolutionize home grocery shopping, and yet, with a well executed user interface, it could offer so much more.

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