Call it "Pimp My Ride: Shopping Cart Edition," only without Xzibit.
A team of engineering students is hoping to make life a little easier for the homeless population in Kelowna, B.C., by rolling out a line of high-tech shopping carts equipped with lights, locks, GPS and a battery charger.
The students from the University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus designed their tricked-out trolleys based off a shopping cart frame, with input from the RCMP, a community church, the City of Kelowna and members of the homeless community.
The carts are meant to assist the homeless with organizing and securing their belongings in lockable compartments. But the proposed design also includes a mobile battery pack with phone plugs, and an induction charger on the wheels to refill the battery while the cart is rolling.
Project co-ordinators are aiming to hand out the carts in Kelowna sometime next year.
