[OPLINTECH] Barcode replacement shown off

[Chad Neeper]

Now THIS is something that we've all been dreaming about for years! I 
remember being excited about it a year or two ago when the researchers 
first started successfully experimenting with it over a significant 
enough distance to be useful. It looks like the technology is starting 
to move from R&D to commercial products, or will be very soon. I can't 
wait to get rid of all those computer power cables!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8165928.stm

Chad

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Chad Neeper wrote:
> 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).
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> 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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> Dan Will wrote:
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>> This caught my attention from Slashdot.
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