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Wireless Shopping Carts Run Windows CE

Posted by Zonk on from the carts-go-mad,-wreck-local-shopping-center dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Fujitsu has introduced a self-service retail scanner that could make long checkout lines a relic of the past. The U-Scan Shopper is a ruggedized XScale-based wireless computer with an integral bar code scanner, running Windows CE 4.2, and mounted on a shopping cart. The company even suggests that customers might upload a shopping list to the store's website before leaving home, and then download the list to the shopping cart upon arriving at the store."

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  1. Re:Express Lane - 15 Items Only by game+kid · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of those carts--oh wait, they're Windows CE. At least PocketPC or XP embedded, if it must be Windows, but please, we've had teh CE for quite a while, there's got to be something above that for portables and contraptions like these by now...right?

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  2. BSOD by MoFoQ · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Hmm....let's see...I need some lettuce in aisle 1, can soup in aisle 6, and toilet paper in aisle.....oop...BSOD"

    as long as it's not as bad as the BMW 7-series WinCE BSOD horror stories....I guess we can live with it.