Apple Online Store“By now, we’ve learned the Japanese have found a number of creative ways to use the iPad. And today we can show you a new one: the iPad as the basis of a sophisticated, yet low-cost point of sale cash register system. Dubbed FLAVIUS, the system is actually being used by several business across Japan already,” Serkan Toto reports for CrunchGear.

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“The way it works is that the iPad is the core of a system that also includes a special-purpose counter and a Wi-Fi router,” Toto reports. “The iPad can be used as both a cash register interface and as an ordering device. FLAVIUS maker Global Network service even integrated a reporting and attendance management system into the system.”

Toto reports, “For example, it’s possible for owners to check the revenues of their stores remotely (on the web) and in real-time.”

Check out the full article with a video of the iPad-based FLAVIUS in action here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Arline M." for the heads up.]