Technology|June 5, 2011 6:51 am

Newest Kinect hack: a grocery cart that loyally follows disabled shoppers (video)


Microsoft’s Kinect is the present which keeps upon giving for hackers, spawning all from glasses-free teleconferencing to Tesla curl strategy to uh, well, Android dance parties. But Luis de Matos’s wi-Go plan is the single of the most socially unwavering we’ve seen: it adds the laptop as well as (despite the name) the Kinect to the selling cart, enabling the transport to follow the wheelchair user. Improving upon the B.O.S.S. bot you saw the half-decade ago, the wi-Go could concede any one — together with the infirm or aged — to emporium independently, in any case of earthy capability. De Matos doesn’t suggest most technical details, though see the video on top of for the before-and-after demonstration.

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