[OPLINTECH] Barcode replacement shown off

Tue Jul 28 13:30:39 EDT 2009

VERY, Very cool stuff. Thanks for sharing!

Joshua Proffit

Head of Automated Services

Licking County Library

101 West Main Street

Newark, OH 43055

(740) 349-5586

jproffit at lickingcountylibrary.info 

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On Behalf Of Chad Neeper
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 1:17 PM
To: OPLINTECH
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
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Level 9 Networks
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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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Chad Neeper
Senior Systems Engineer

Level 9 Networks
740-548-8070 (voice)
866-214-6607 (fax)

--   Full LAN/WAN consulting services   --
-- Specialized in libraries and schools --

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

willda at oplin.org

740.992.5813

740.992.6140 (fax)

The difference between fiction and reality?

Fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy

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