Sky makes iPad trolley for square-eyed shoppers No, despite Sky's effulgent press release, you are not going to be able to watch Sky while you wheel a trolley round Sainsbury's - thank the beardy bloke up there - for some time, if ever. Sky today pitched the notion - a supermarket trolley with a bolted on iPad 2 running the satellite broadcaster's Sky Go app - as a means by …
If those bits of pimply floor at the perimeter gaps of supermarket car parks can't prevent trolleys ending up in canals or becoming the grill component of a DIY brick barbecue, how many seconds does Sky think it will be before those iPads "disappear", with or without the trolley?
The excitement of dodging sullen teens too busy texting to look where they're going was starting to wear off, now it'll be shopping carts full of soft drinks and frozen microwave meals steered randomly by oblivious morons.
What are these geniuses working on next? iPad steering wheel mounts so you can play Angry Birds while driving?
when you go into my local Tesco's. The place is renowned as being a mobile Dead Zone. The building is like a huge Farraday Cage.
Even locals complain what they can't find out if hubby is down the pub while they are dragging their 6 screaming kits round the store.
Where's the MEGA fail icon when you need it.
At the moment the best time to go shopping is "Prime Time" or as I like to call it "Sheep Time".
Anytime between 7pm and 10pm on a weekday the supermarket is pretty empty and almost totally devoid of trolley zombies. On the vague off chance that I might miss something interesting, I just record it.
As for the TrolliPad it'll never happen but just in case I claim Copyright on that name. ;-)
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