I need a favour please. Pretty please. Pretty please with sugar on. etc. etc.

I've been reading about the CueCat bar code reader available FOC in Radio Shacks in the states. To put it bluntly, I'd like a couple.

So, if there are any Americans out there in a kind and generous mood and who fancy grabbing a couple and posting them to a Brit in Switzerland, I'd be very grateful.

Obviously I'd pay you for your trouble and the cost of the postage. PayPal now do international accounts, so that'd be the easiest way to do it.

Replies in this thread, private message or mail me at nick@debau.ch.

Thanks.

Nick.


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You're kidding, right?

Those things are so ugly and so completely utterly useless that I don't know how their company can even think they were marketable in the first place. An oversized, ugly bar code scanner whose only purpose is to read a bar-coded URL from a catalog page and then jump to that page... I just don't get it. The only catalogs that are coded to use it are the Ratshack catalogs, and there's no possible reason anyone would want to buy anything from them, let alone add another bulky peripheral to their desk to help surf the Ratshack web site.

Unless, of course, you're planning on hacking it for your own purposes, in which case, more power to ya. I haven't got one to mail, though. Won't touch 'em.

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Tony Fabris

Linux drivers were knocked up for these devices months ago. If you can live with the stupid styling (or remove it!) you get a free barcode scanner.

In practice, I've yet to find a Radio Shack with any in stock. The Slashdot geeks got them all!

Rob

I already dissected mine ;) Subscribers to WIRED were sent one.(wich carried bar coded ads)
It was interesting for about 5 min then it became part of my useless electronics sculpture.

To be honest the bar-code reader was fairly weak. It took several passes to read even a simple UPC code.
The software was actually able to decipher and take me to most products manufacturers web sites. Kinda interesting to see just who makes what!

John

Hehe, you might find this amusing. If you've seen a picture floating around the web of a guy with a "portable computer system" (plywood with monitor, keyboard, and speakers attached), this is by the same guy.

http://www.geocities.com/hofmonstr.rm

DiGNAN