PrintIn 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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2 Comments:
Kudos to China for banning those pesky plastic bags. Now if the USA had any sense they would do the same thing. Biodegradabilty aside, I'm tired of watching them getting caught in power lines, chain-link fences and generally just blowin' in the wind. They are ugly and should be done away with!!!
RichardCrystal at 9:25AM on 01/15/08
They didn't ban them outright. Just required stores to start charging for them.
Adam Kuban at 10:48AM on 01/15/08