Monday, February 25, 2013

Smart Carts Heading Your Way



You loathe shopping and yet it has to be done to fulfill the family requirements. As you tug the loaded folding roller cart along, you wonder as to why anyone didn’t fathom the idea of a cart that followed you on its own? What if we were to say that such a cart is soon going to be a reality? Believe it!!

As per the prototype designed by Microsoft, an Xbox360 Kinect technology based smart cart will soon be available at a store near you. Armed with sensors, this cart will follow you, as you move along the supermarket.  With a tablet and a UPC scanner along the handle bar of this cart, you are sure to get noticed by all.  The new and attractive collapsible rolling cart will appear so down market in comparison to your smart cart.  

What’s Unique About the Electronic Carts?

The best thing about these carts is that it permits the making of a list. Once programmed and scanned, it ensures that no item is left out of that list. More importantly, it signals an alarm as soon as a different item is added to the cart. 

The best feature that is incorporated into the cart is voice enabled interactive shopping.  The cart can actually run through the contents of the item in the cart and point out if there is a mismatch. For instance, if a person wanted an item without a specific protein, the cart will check the carton for the same. At some of the stores where these carts being used on a trial basis, the carts are programmed to guide the customers to the location where their items are placed.  If the technical collaboration with the retailers working fine, the long waits at the billing counters will remain a thing of the past. 

The Importance of Folding Rolling Carts

The electronically controlled carts however do not take the sheen of the conventional carts.  The collapsible carts will still have a charm of their own.  The folding rolling carts have their own utility in schools.  You don’t want the self moving carts to bang into your kids right?  These collapsible rolling carts can also be parked in one area so that they hold the school material.

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