Okaimono Navi Cart (Shopping Navi Cart)
Akihabara News reports:
Fujitsu, Jusco, Dai Nippon and the Japanese government are testing the Shopping Navis Wagon, a shopping cart with LCD screen and RFID reader. This product will allow you to get a maximum of information on the products you see and buy while you shop. We won't get into the whole RFID debate here, but I quite like the idea of getting a lot of info on the products you're about to buy. Let's hope they make it available in other languages for foreigners for example or let you see what the total of your shopping amounts up to before getting to the cash register...
via Gizmodo
Additional Info
This cart was developed for one of the pilot tests of the Japanese Future Store Project. Twenty five of these carts will be used at Jusco Yachiyo Midorigaoka Store from February 6 till March 12.
Five hundred RFID tags are attached to shelves and customers use handheld scanners to scan the tags to obtain information about various products. For example, by scanning the tags, customers can immediately view information such as product features, manuals, TV commercial clips, ads. With some inputs on the cart-mounted computer, customers can also access recipes, floor guide info and product locations.
The company will also test a location-based information delivery service.
source: Fujitsu Press release
Posted by konomi at January 26, 2006 12:00 AM | TrackBack