This is pretty cool, but the title is confusing. You don’t go to a supermarket to get a shopping cart, you go there to get food. What does it all mean?
Actually, that first picture is of a different contraption (if you haven’t noticed the bike’s paint color). The idea is not really new, it’s just its potential application as something that can be engineered to work based on this very human solution to create a more efficient shopping experience. As Mike says, it’s impossible to steer, something you’d expect just by looking at the thing. Also, it would be even more difficult to steer if loaded with groceries.
September 14th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
This is pretty cool, but the title is confusing. You don’t go to a supermarket to get a shopping cart, you go there to get food. What does it all mean?
September 14th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
the guy goes to the supermarket, with the shopping cart, and will put the food in the cart.
September 15th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
That thing must be hard to steer.
September 24th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Actually, that first picture is of a different contraption (if you haven’t noticed the bike’s paint color). The idea is not really new, it’s just its potential application as something that can be engineered to work based on this very human solution to create a more efficient shopping experience. As Mike says, it’s impossible to steer, something you’d expect just by looking at the thing. Also, it would be even more difficult to steer if loaded with groceries.
The initial image came from an entirely different source (by Ryan McFarland), since we wrote up our thoughts on the concept here:
http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/09/bagless-shoppin.html
September 24th, 2007 at 11:52 am
The carts are different too.
Thanks for the link.