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High Tech Shopping Carts Offer Discounts, Ads
An anonymous reader writes "'Imagine walking down a supermarket aisle and hearing a chime as you pass the peanut butter letting you know it's on sale. Or picture reading the local five-day weather forecast, checking the Dow Jones industrial average and finding a new chicken and rice recipe, all from your shopping basket. Souped up with a computer attachment, your shopping cart could become a know-it-all that gives you special discounts based on what you buy or provides news and information as you sail through grocery aisles.' Full story here, and the Cart manufacturer's site here. I might just have to warshop in Moraga today..."
Kash n Karry (a redneck we-cant-spell-isnt-it-cute)
Typical elitist attitude. Why shouldn't words be written the way they sound?
The letter 'c' is sometimes used as an 's' and sometimes as a 'k' - both redundant and ambiguous. The letter 's' is sometimes used as a 'z'. Look at "close" and "close" - two different words with different consonants written using the same letter, making the entire spelling the same. WTH? I love languages that have a well defined mapping between textual and aural representation of words (Italian's great). They also make it easier to write text-to-speech and speech-to-text software.
P.S. Moderators: save your points. No need to moderate this as insightful only to have somebody negate it with an off-topic.
SO now they want talking Penut Butter to chace me into the frozen pizza isle?
Then when I stand at the milk fridge cheking for the freshest one it starts saying "moooovalong you are holding up the line"
I wonder if the psycologist have a name yet for the mental phobias that are going to come about from this. Phonaletchaphobia(fear of hearing milk) maybe?