'Well-made and sturdy, the
supermarket trolley comes with a variety of plastic food items --
bananas, packets of cereal -- that can be scanned with a handheld
scanner attached to the cart. Pass an item in front of the scanner, and
the cart speaks its name and the number of items. Scan the item again,
and the cart speaks its color, the food group and its nutritional
benefit.
'Aimed at preschoolers, the cart is billed as teaching numbers, counting, quantities and simple food facts. . .
'Lyle preferred the exploratory mode and its free-form play. The game
mode, when asked to find certain items, was not altogether successful.
Lyle had no trouble finding the first item asked for but lost interest
before finding the second one, preferring to scan items at random.' [Wired News].
