Motorola MC17 portable shopping scanner

Motorola aims to make shopping all the more easier with the MC17 portable shopping scanner. Strangely enough, it runs on Windows CE 5.0 and IE 6.0 to give you the current object’s price in addition to comparable brands and their prices as well. Heck, you can also pay for it on the spot simply by scanning a coupon, letting you skip all those long checkout lines. I wonder whether devices such as this will render folks working at the checkout counter redundant in the future. Motorola has set the MC17 at $995, and comes with a simple user interface that makes it easy to use across all age groups. Do you think Walmart and other large supermarkets will incorporate the MC17 into their everyday business?