Monday, December 13

Super Shopping Trolleys

   1. "Tesco plans anti-tantrum trolley"
      < http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3531432.stm >
   "Designers are working on a shopping trolley that plays DVDs, CDs and
    educational games for children"

   2. "Supermarket dumps speaking trolleys"
      < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1103651.html >
   "A supermarket in Austria is dumping speaking trolleys and robotic
    cleaners because they've been annoying shoppers"

   3. "Trolley offers supermarket workout"
      < http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3665777.stm >
   "'It is a standard trolley but with the sort of fitness attachments
    you would find in a gym, enabling you do a workout while you shop'"

   4. "Inventor cracks trolley problem"
      < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1084123.html >
   "An inventor claims to have solved the problem of supermarket trolleys
    that refuse to go in a straight line"

   5. "Firm claims to banish trolley wobbles"
      < http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/3426139.stm >
   "A company based in Kent has claimed to have solved the age-old
    problem of wobbly supermarket trolleys"

   6. "Trolley toll tops $1m"
      < http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200311/s986934.htm >
   "New research reveals shopping trolleys cause about $1 million worth of
    damage to Australia's cars every year, with 'runaway' trolleys the
    worst offenders"

   7. "Jet-powered shopping trolley"
      < http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1129321.html >
   "A Suffolk man has created the world's fastest shopping trolley - by
    fitting a jet engine"

   (a John West post)