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Intel conceived of the touch screen cash register machine, it’s not getting into the point of sale business. At checkout time, the salesperson brings the counter screen to life with their badge; images of your items materialize. The goal of the touch screen cash register is about to be unveiledthis week at the National Retail Federation show in Chicago. “And people don’t like looking at motherboards. The prototype uses more efficient screens LCD screens and processors, but more importantly, it goes to sleep as soon as a salesperson walks away. Frog took a depressing look at futuremachines, which average five years old. But touch panels and next-gen processors don’t come cheap. Flash an RFID store loyalty card, and your purchase history pops up — along with recommendations for what you might buy today. Today’s registers draw up to 250 watts and are typically left on 24/7 to receive inventory info. “We wanted to show the future,” says Ryan Parker, of Intel’s Embedded ComputingDivision.Two vertical screens function as kiosks, promoting consumer ads and promotions. The future of cash registers is just around the corner, look no further than the first touch screen cash register. The touch screen cash register is meant to highlight a new direction for retail terminals, made possible by the chipmaker’s newest processors.. They then came up with a concept that replaces today’s haphazard agglomeration of cash-box, signature pad and barcode scanner with a triple-touchscreen aluminum altar of lights that looks like a pinball machine from the Holodeck.”Intel turned to Frog Design, the SanFrancisco-based