In the future our shopping carts at the grocery store will not be similar to the ones you see today. In fact, your shopping cart will know where every item in the store is, and it will probably have a laser pointing device that points to this section of whatever it was that you asked for last.

Luckily, it will be voice interactive, and contain speech recognition software. You can ask the cart about any given product such as the number of calories, number of grams of fat, or if it contains something you don’t want such as an artificial sweetener, or perhaps gluten.

Best of all, you won’t have to worry about Swine Flu season, because the future shopping cart will be coated with a special chemical or titanium dioxide, which will kill the germs. Your cart will also tell you which checkout line will go the fastest space on a probability scale, based on a quick calculation of the number of items of the person currently checking out, the number of people in line, and the speed and efficiency of that particular checker.

Your shopping cart will also alert you if you left an item inside of it before returning it to the cart collection area in the parking lot. It would be impossible at that point to leave anything inside the cart. The cart will also advise you that it must be put into the parking lot cart pin, and not left in the middle of the parking lot.