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My vote goes to the now-defunct "CueCat". It immediately became a rallying point for the asinine behavior of the venture capital that flowed so freely only a few years ago. Here's a nice "obituary": http://www.dmagazine.com/october01/featured1001.shtml
(note that the parent company, Digital Convergence, still maintains their website as if this is the hottest property around).
Oh yeah, we must have at least a dozen of these things here at work. We all ran out to Radio Shack to grab our free ones (so we could hack them and generally make fun of them). Anyone else try to link them together like a string of Christmas lights?
(note that the parent company, Digital Convergence, still maintains their website as if this is the hottest property around).
Oh yeah, we must have at least a dozen of these things here at work. We all ran out to Radio Shack to grab our free ones (so we could hack them and generally make fun of them). Anyone else try to link them together like a string of Christmas lights?
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CueCat was such a bad idea on so many levels ... to quote the founder of F*cked Company though ... I don't blame the people who invented it ... I blame the people who INVESTED in it ...
Have fun,
Derek
CueCat was such a bad idea on so many levels ... to quote the founder of F*cked Company though ... I don't blame the people who invented it ... I blame the people who INVESTED in it ...
Have fun,
Derek
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Heehee. My thought when the thing came out was "Great. Like I need quicker access to advertising. 
" (I'm convinced inane advertisements are the source of violence in American society.)
But the Cross pen version is an interesting twist that I think actually had some merit. Not to scan barcodes in newspapers or magazines. But since it was portable, you could take it to, say, Barnes & Noble and if you saw a book that looked interesting but you weren't sure if it was worth buying, you could scan the UPC and later download a review or some such of it.
These days, my alternatives are to pull a pen out of my pocket (if I have a pen) and write the title and author down... assuming I have paper, otherwise I'd write on... my hand? Or I could pull out my Visor (which usually gets left behind because between my pager and cell phone I have enough gadgets weighing my down) and and spend several minutes trying to get graffiti to recognize my scribblings.
The whole "Digital Convergence" stuff is just BS. But as a simple barcode scanner input device - I'd like such an attachment for my Visor.
Speaking of information input, I often find myself doing something like driving or walking somewhere, and I get some thought or idea I'd like to follow up on, but I have no way to record it. And my memory sucks so I usually forget and that's the end of that. So I'd love to see some sort of voice-to-text recorder springboard.
" (I'm convinced inane advertisements are the source of violence in American society.)But the Cross pen version is an interesting twist that I think actually had some merit. Not to scan barcodes in newspapers or magazines. But since it was portable, you could take it to, say, Barnes & Noble and if you saw a book that looked interesting but you weren't sure if it was worth buying, you could scan the UPC and later download a review or some such of it.
These days, my alternatives are to pull a pen out of my pocket (if I have a pen) and write the title and author down... assuming I have paper, otherwise I'd write on... my hand? Or I could pull out my Visor (which usually gets left behind because between my pager and cell phone I have enough gadgets weighing my down) and and spend several minutes trying to get graffiti to recognize my scribblings.
The whole "Digital Convergence" stuff is just BS. But as a simple barcode scanner input device - I'd like such an attachment for my Visor.
Speaking of information input, I often find myself doing something like driving or walking somewhere, and I get some thought or idea I'd like to follow up on, but I have no way to record it. And my memory sucks so I usually forget and that's the end of that. So I'd love to see some sort of voice-to-text recorder springboard.