Wireless Shopping Carts Run Windows CE 274
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."
The only downside is... (Score:5, Funny)
Can I get my items for free... (Score:0, Funny)
Express Lane - 15 Items Only (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The only downside is... (Score:4, Funny)
You'll have to eat 12093749283745 bowls of Raisin Bran to get all the nutrition of one bowl of Total.
So now cities can Gripe about... (Score:5, Funny)
No surprise. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:So now cities can Gripe about... (Score:3, Funny)
Damn you India!
Re:Um... so? (Score:3, Funny)
We do have valet parking at one grocery store though
Re:The only downside is... (Score:5, Funny)
about a year ago I went through the checkouts and when a pack of jellybeans was scanned, the register bluescreened. I sniggered a little, but hey - I'm accepting - sometimes these things crash. It took the register guy a few minutes to get the attention of a supervisor ("It's gone blue again!") to reset the register, call up the previous parts of my shopping, and get things going again.
Supervisor re-scanned the jellybeans, and it bluescreened again. Ha!. Next time around he just entered a generic confectionary code and I went on my way. That was kinda cool, and getting back to dorms we had a laugh about it, and decided to all head down at some random busy time and try the same again.
It was cool! eight of us all went through different registers at about the same time, all bluescreening one after another with packets of Candy Lane Jellybeans.
DDoSing a supermarket, it was cool!
Re:Dynamic pricing (Score:2, Funny)
I can't wait for the upgrade... (Score:3, Funny)
clippy: (In a loud voice) I see you're buying hemmoroid cream. Would you also like to purchase Tucks(tm)?
clippy: I notice you're buying a lot of antihistamine products. Would you like me to take you to the facial tissue aisle, or would you like a new meth recipe?
clippy: You're passing a great sale on bright red lipstick. Are you sure you want to pass this opportunity up? Buy some for the kids! It also makes a great marker for the person who keeps taking your parking spot.
-Adam
Re:Won't someone think of the children. (Score:4, Funny)
A dog.
and
A Person.
The dogs job is to make sure the person doesnt touch the computer.
The persons job is to feed the dog.
Re:Vulnerability in Fujitsu Wireless Shopping Cart (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The only downside is... (Score:2, Funny)