Video: Microsoft Pimps Kinect-Enabled Shopping Cart. Sloth ++

Listen, let’s all calm down with bringing the Skynet Cylon revolution into our fucking grocery stores. Well, anymore than it already is. I mean, laziness is good and all. I get it. You want to be fat. You want to ride your scooters around Walmart while you buy shit you don’t need. That said, we need to draw the line somewhere. I’m drawing it at having a Kinect-enabled Fascist Robot Shopping Cart point out when you’re buying the wrong spaghetti.

Hit the jump for more info, and the horror.

Joystiq:

If you’ve dreamed of a day when your shopping cart could slowly stalk you, as you peruse the aisles at your local Whole Foods, Microsoft is one step ahead of you. The company recently demonstrated a prototype of a  Kinect-enabled shopping cart. Employing a monitor, a motor and a  Kinect  sensor, the cart can recognize a membership card, pull up a customer’s shopping list and scan objects as they are placed in the cart. What’s more, the cart will dutifully follow a customer around the store.

As demonstrated in the video above, the cart can even identify user preferences — in this case, warning Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg that he picked up the wrong type of spaghetti (apparently he’s going gluten free). Best of all, the cart allows customers to immediately pay for their purchases using a stored account, thus negating the need to stand in the checkout line (unless you want help bagging your groceries … but you brought your  own  bags, right?).