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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!<br>
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<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8165928.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8165928.stm</a><br>
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Chad<br>
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Chad Neeper wrote:
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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).<br>
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What I suppose I <i>can</i> see is manufacturers embedding the bokodes
in <i>conjunction</i> 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!<br>
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My 2 cents.<br>
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Chad<br>
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Dan Will wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">This caught my attention from Slashdot.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Supervisor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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