Intelliscanner Aids Kitchen Inventory December 7, 2005
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The Intelliscanner Kitchen Companion is a Bluetooth enabled device that scans barcodes to keep inventory of your kitchen. It is powered by a database containing more than 300,000 barcodes of various grocery products. All you have to do is scan you products in as you get them and out as you stuff them in your face and the Intelliscanner’s database will know when you are running low on products. Then it can send a grocery list to a variety of different devices such as PDAs, iPods, cell phones, etc. All of this worthlessness can be yours for $279 for the Bluetooth model or $179 for the USB model. Would anybody actually use this?
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Editor and Contributor | Martin Lynch
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...and why would anybody actually need this in the real world?
This is one of those silly, overyhyped ideas from the dotcom boom, dreamed up by people who have no understanding of basic economics or simple human behaviour.
In fact, with healthy food trends, I rarely have items with barcodes. And if I do, the barcode is taken off when the package is open. So what's the use? we need some smarter scanner that would estimate how many apples are in a fridge drawer !