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congratulations

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ed from cary north carolina says most

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american households have a junk drawer

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space that collects miscellaneous stuff

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that we can find a better place for is

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there a storage space like that on the

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iss where do you guys operate under a

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place for everything and everything in

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its place roll

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well

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keeping track of stuff on the space

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station is a big job

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there's a lot of stuff up here it's a

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very big space station and yeah you're

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right we need to be able to find things

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right away when we need them

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so we have a database a very large

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database and we have

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everything everything that needs to be

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kept track of has a barcode and so in

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that sense it operates kind of like a

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department store or supermarket you know

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there's a barcode we can scan it we have

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barcodes on all the locations for things

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and we can scan things into their

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locations

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the ground there's a lot of work to keep

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up with this and

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you know it and it takes us a fair bit

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of time on orbit you know um this is

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something that we know we can improve on

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that could make things uh work better in

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the future and so like one idea that's

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come up is to have kind of like an

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automatic um

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automatic sensed uh

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sense a serial number tag uh so for

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example

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we we have a demonstration of this where

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a bag is full of stuff and really by

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just holding the bag in front of a

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device that can read that can read these

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tags um all everything inside the bag

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all these things so basically report

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their location and the device can

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say oh okay here's a list of 10 things

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that are in this bag not have an open in

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the bag

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ideally in the future it'd be great if

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you could just tag things and they know

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essentially where they are

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they've been assigned somewhere and as

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they move around

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if they they can report their own

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location

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i think in the future we'll see