Whole Foods presents the prototype of the supermarket cart of the future

The Whole Foods store chain is working on a smart shopping cart prototype that takes advantage of the benefits of Kinect technology and incorporates a small LCD screen to guide the consumer through the supermarket and help them with the shopping list..

La cadena de retail Whole Foods, specialist in natural and organic foods operating in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, has presented a prototype of a self-service cart that could change the way we shop at the supermarket. It is a cart that moves on its own., that is able to follow the client, talk to him and help him buy in a healthy way, providing you with useful information to select what you buy.

The project, called 'Smarter Cart', has been developed by the company Chaotic Moon, and uses a built-in tablet that scans the products that are placed inside the cart and provides a description of them. Besides, You can load the shopping list into your database, to guide us to the location of each item and can even make observations about the products that are being introduced into it.

The cart can inform the user when they have not picked up the product that was on the list, that a certain food contains gluten or another element, or if it is part of the dietary restrictions that the user provides to the cart before starting the purchase. It also indicates the total amount of what has been purchased so far., reviews what has been added to the cart and even charges the account to the credit card once the purchase is complete.

In order to develop all these functionalities, It has different motion sensors, tecnología de reconocimiento de voz y complexión, RFID technology (radio frequency identification) and a Kinect controller. Microsoft has equipped the shopping cart with a Windows tablet 8 that can show us all the products in the supermarket, as well as its features and price. Also included is the option to show cooking recipes that can be prepared with certain foods or products..

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