[OPLINTECH] Barcode replacement shown off

[Chad Neeper]

Interesting, but I wonder if it would actually garner widespread 
adoption and completely replace, for instance, the ubiquitous UPC 
barcode. From the description, I would guess that it requires 
specialized equipment to produce, for starters.  This might be a 
hindrance to those individuals/organizations that produce their own 
barcodes from their regular daily-use printers. That fact alone would 
affect everything from libraries producing their own barcodes on books 
to US postal mail, which uses address information encoded into a barcode 
(which senders can currently produce themselves).

What I suppose I /can/ see is manufacturers embedding the bokodes in 
/conjunction/ with barcodes, to provide additional information...if the 
cost/benefit is good. And even then, used mostly for warehousing 
activities. Still, it would have to fight already-established RFID tags. 
But honestly, I can't see myself taking a picture of the cereal row in 
my grocery store with my cell phone or PDA...to pick out the cereal I want!

My 2 cents.

Chad

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