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More on Talking Shopping Carts

Posted by michael on from the don't-forget-the-oreos dept.

ThosLives writes "CNN.com is reporting a story about Talking Shopping Carts. (I rue the day when viruses attack these carts, telling everyone to go buy Brand X). This article also has some interesting comments about possible (and likely inevitable) uses of RFID. I wonder, in the future, will I be able to buy anything with our new funny colored cash dollars?" We've mentioned these before.

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  1. Great Idea. by Davak · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Great idea... ...as long as I know where the mute button is.

  2. Viruses? by hype7 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I rue the day when viruses attack these carts, telling everyone to go buy Brand X


    Viruses?

    You think it's going to take viruses for this to happen?

    -- james
  3. I can see a good use for this... by mark-t · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Well... a good use for electronic shopping carts anyways... I could live without the jabbering.

    You prepare a shopping list at home in some format, putting onto a micro floppy disk or some other easily transportable technology. You then plug that into the shopping cart when you arrive at the store and the shopping cart gives you the most optimum path to take through the aisles in order to pick up all the items on the list. A small LCD monitor would direct you to which aisle you needed to proceed to next.

    I can't tell you how often I end up backtracking when I'm grocery shopping... it probably adds 50% to my overall time, maybe even more.

    --
    File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'