In the News: Carts with Auto-Checkout; Strange Seafood; China Bans Free Plastic Bags
- Microsoft working on self-checkout shopping cart. Along with the company MediaCart, the software giant will offer on-cart advertising and automated shopping lists via a small flip-up screen. The cart will use RFID technology to sense what's in it [Yahoo! News]
- What $8,500 worth of bluefin tuna looks like before it hits your plate. A video segment from 60 Minutes. (Warning: Video plays automatically.) [CBS; via Eater]
- Carp force-fed sake in Japanese ceremony. The fish symbolically take on humans' calamities. [Mainichi Daily News]
- Diners find pearls in oysters. First in South Florida and now in New Jersey—in a plate of fried oysters. [NPR]
- China bans free plastic bags. [International Herald Tribune; via Inhabitat]
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