Newest Kinect hack a grocery cart that loyally follows disabled shoppers video Engadget

[OnlyVideoGuyOnEarth]

Or he could have a string to direct it haha

[lawrenceofaus]

This is amazing. Good job for doing this and for applying it in this situation.

[runebladez999]

wow. hes pushing the cart. im amazed

[leyira]

@runebladez999 Did you watch the whole video? He was demonstrating how cumbersome it can be to push a shopping cart from a wheelchair and then showed how much easier it would be to have a cart that followed you.

[BD0GG0420]

This is genius

[MrOriginalzombie]

very cool

[dasnestdes007]

ist das geil

[darkmaniseverywhere]

wow......



[Kbisori]

this creator is just a god!

[diegosilerio]

what if someone cuts between the kinect and the person its following?

[dark1567]

@diegosilerio i think kinect will "see" this and wait for your body^^ or its gonna be bad :O

[Sonic7598]

That might be the coolest thing ever

[happy0little0bunny]

Those are some strange looking shopping trollies.

[TheMarUlberg]

Hε did't εxαctly chαllαngε thε thing...

[sarkiebrad]

Great idea, would be amazing for that to go into production, but it would cost the earth

[roshan106]

Great idea :D, but wi go isn't the best name :/

[rickycolonjj]

continuation of first post: reducing size even to the point that it could be mass produced and easily installed everywhere, a store could select what size wheels are on their carts and have a box of these systems sent to them, ready for install just take off the current wheel and bolt the new wheels, camera, battery, and small router like device for connection to the server and BAM! carts that follow disabled citizens around! easy as that... and the world has been changed for the better!

[rickycolonjj]

Very nice!! this is amazing... i did have one question though, how do you prevent it from switching targets? everyone knows theres going to be one of those pesky kids that will run in between the diabled person and the cart... just a question i had... and also i can see how this could be streamlined with a small server that supports multi-users (carts) somewhere in the store/mall... it would remove the pc from the actual cart and it would require much less power/battery capasity... and size

[salvab13]

@rickycolonjj the thing is that they thought about it the designers.to change target it could take considerably a lot of time although of course it depends on various of factors and personally i would think that would be a problem and if it where to happened i guess it could be configured to stop all moving processes when suddenly the target changes and resume by using voice recognition or something just an idea i really liked the one you proposed of the laptop replacement

[613rachel]

Nice!

[flykyle24]

that is sick

[bharathyp]

with just some mechanical magic this can b achieved dont need to use that much technology and programming!!! but i am from IT background as well and i know the hardword and its great

[javierphx1]

kinect sdk nice!!!

[kanimanftmiles]

amazin



[chad7chad1]

I can't believe that nobody tried helping the guy out before he came out with the Wi-Go gear!?!? I'm hoping there were people that offered to help him push his shopping cart that the video didn't show???

[brian8000333]

pepol must be sayin"i must get that i dont care how much it costs i want it and i want it NOW!"

[winclouduk]

This is amazing and a brilliant hack. I take it it avoids anything thats can get in way too as not all supermarkets are not that clear in the isles and empty.

[Twizler09]

@winclouduk what do you mean by "hack" like as in hacking a game or like as in another use

[marcktony15]

I will take outer shair to recipient in where save your things

[bartsimpson2001]

this has to best the best thing Microsoft has done this camera is unreal, love the kinect.

[jkrobertson88]

I will say this much, Microsoft is finally starting to embrace the open source movement (slowly but surely) they are giving the community access to free developing tools and giving us tutorials on how to use them. If linux taught us anything it is that greed doesn't produce products quickly and effectively, it is a drive in all of us to make this world a better place and if you give us the tools and the knowledge we will build it

[carlosmanuel78]

es la mejor tecnologia....... superando a Star Trek

[pfrabott]

Thats is amazing! I love the innovation that seems to be coming to our near future.

[javogreen07]

AMAZING!

[dramatim]

truly wonderful

[MrGrakkus]

niiiice xD

[wshossein]

This video is linked in Microsoft's page and the title is kinect hack LOL

Great Job

[ben1ong]

awesome ,great job

[kelleyable]

Very cool!



[jdaff6539]

This is a major stride into a new generation.

[Mikeh515]

This is absolutely. Awesome!

[MrPackman111]

i think it's cool that they are using the kinect for helpful reasons and not just for playing with the 360.

[Kribel360]

Parabéns pelo project, continuem ;)

[bogascorp]

Nice. Filmed in Continente ^-^

Also great project =)

[sabretooh7]

Simply awesome, let's help everybody. GOD bless you all.



[voniak289]

kool!!! haha but it'd be kinda funny having a "robot" stalk you mistakenly haha

[Sleeky20x]

is Microsoft allowing this? i sure hope so

[turgo82]

@Sleeky20x yup its officially supported. They have and SDK for kinect out.

[underthecover1]

@Sleeky20x well they linked it on their kinect site

[neoluz]

Awesome!



[Colten45Owns]

Having a father who was disabled and now passed. Seeing this, truly made me tear up. Knowing a disabled person who had to have assistance or move into one of the automatic chair carts or carry a hand cart will soon have the option of a regular cart following them around. not a day goes by without me thinking of ideas to help disabled people. i haven't thought of this because of the odd stores who deliver, and this is just awesome! to have the option of going shopping without assistance, AWESOME!

[allyour85]

kinect makes everythign possible :)

[soft2buy]

Brillian!But it's easy to follow other people...

[technotoaster]

This is how the future is created- baby steps first!!!

[pappercactuar2]

@technotoaster how does a handicap guy take baby steps

[finalform11]

only on Kinect :D

[digity239]

wow, this is revolutionary. Get yourself noticed guys! expose yourself! :)

[SCUi3401]

Also I was the first to thumbs up this video great job guys

[SCUi3401]

That's cool when are we gonna make it into a robot that can follow us and carry our things and take them home then come back ? This is great