[OPLINTECH] Barcode replacement shown off

[JKENZIG]

UPS and many retailers have been using the bocodes for a bit.  There is an iphone app to read them out.  As far as the charger idea goes I wonder how much testing has been done on affects it will have on humans and for that matter magnetic properties of other devices in its immediate area.  Still cool stuff.

 

Jim Kenzig
Network Manager
Cuyahoga County Public Library

 

 

From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org] On Behalf Of Chad Neeper
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 1:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Barcode replacement shown off

 

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).

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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Level 9 Networks
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866-214-6607 (fax)
 
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Dan Will wrote: 

This caught my attention from Slashdot.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8170027.stm

 

 

 

Dan Will

Technology Supervisor

Meigs County District Public Library

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740.992.6140 (fax)

 

 

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