Kinect-Hacked Shopping Cart Automatically Follows Wheelchair-Bound Shoppers Around

Luis de Matos has rigged hackers’ favorite device to make a shopping cart follow a wheelchair user around the store.
The wi-Go project, as it’s called, could significantly improve autonomy for disabled shoppers. The video below shows the difficulty of trying to simultaneously operate a cart and a wheelchair and then (beginning around 1:20) a much less stressful shopping trip, courtesy of the wi-Go.



via Kinect Hacks