Kinect Grocery Cart Follows Shoppers Around the Store

cylonlover writes "When Chaotic Moon Labs debuted the Kinect-powered Board of Awesomeness — and its mind-reading offspring, the Board of Imagination — that was apparently just a preview of a more practical product the company had in the works. Grocery store chain Whole Foods recently gave a demonstration of Chaotic Moon's latest device, which uses the same technology in a self-propelled shopping cart. The 'Smarter Cart,' as it's been named, can detect what items are placed in it, match those to a shopping list, and even follow shoppers around the store on its own."

Comments

"25% off whole grain cereal"

[GodfatherofSoul]

Please place the item in your cart. You have 20 seconds to comply.

Re:What happens when the shop is overcrowded...

[Anonymous Coward]

Presumably this is why they're trialling it at Whole Foods. More than one person in the store is an edge case they can safely ignore.

Wobbly wheel

[need4mospd]

Even with these automated carts, I'll still get the one that pulls to the left and sounds like a hyena got caught in the wheel.