We are blessed on the Mac platform with many good ways to keep track of our stuff -- but Intelliscanner takes it to the next level, with a range of integrated scanner and software solutions that will have you tracking your movies, books, wine and comics with barcoded accuracy and ease. We visited the Inteliiscanner booth at Macworld for a demo of the Mini, a handheld scanner that can hold 150 item scans before downloading via USB to the host. The bundle retails for $299 but there's a show special through the end of January (and I'm contacting Intelliscan now to make sure it's still running & get the discount code for you) and unlike some other Macworld vendors, they really mean "show special" -- the offer ended Friday. Video after the jump (and pay no attention to the title card... editing mixup on my part).
Why not just get the barcode scanner that DM sells to go with DL? It's really quite a nice little laser scanner, stores (100, I think) UPCs in memory, and connects painlessly over Bluetooth. If you have a large personal inventory, it makes the scanning much quicker, compared to the often wonky iSight scanning.
Too bad you can't use it with other software (like delicious library).. For that price they could at least make it interoperable with other software right?
For third party stuff you would need the soho model it seems. 299.00 Im not sure if it would work with delicious or not. Their soho looks really similar to the flic model DM sells
I remember something like that being handed out for $20 (or was it free) by some Bubble 1.0 startup. It was a keychain sized barcode scanner that you'd keep with you, and scan any interesting products you saw. When you came home and synced, their software would show you everything - and help you find better prices.
I might even still have mine in my gadget drawer. It was super cool to have such a small scanner.
I also had the barcode scanning Que-Cat, sent free to every subscriber of Wired magazine.
It is crazy that this costs so much. A scanner would be wonderfully useful (and worth paying for) if it cost $50, or even better - $30.
Well if it isn't open to any apps except theirs then its useless. to any home user. Delicious is the gold standard and no worky there then it wont get bought.
Chris, the device you are thinking of is the Qode Qoder, which was actually made by Intermec, and was even smaller than the CS1504. For some reason Intermec stopped selling it, however. The CS1504 has a more reliable laser scanner engine, on the other hand.
Chris, the device you are thinking of is the Qode Qoder, which was actually made by Intermec, and was even smaller than the CS1504. For some reason Intermec stopped selling it, however. The CS1504 has a more reliable laser scanner engine, on the other hand.
We are blessed on the Mac platform with many good ways to keep track of our stuff -- but Intelliscanner takes it to the next level, with a range of integrated scanner and software solutions that will have you tracking your movies, books, wine and comics with barcoded accuracy and ease. We visited the Inteliiscanner booth at Macworld for a demo of the Mini, a handheld scanner that can hold 150 item scans before downloading via USB to the host. The bundle retails for $299 
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1-23-2008 @ 8:53AM
DrWho said...
Wonder if that would ever work with delicious library, scanning stuff with the isight camera can be a bit hit and miss
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1-23-2008 @ 3:28PM
hohum said...
Why not just get the barcode scanner that DM sells to go with DL? It's really quite a nice little laser scanner, stores (100, I think) UPCs in memory, and connects painlessly over Bluetooth. If you have a large personal inventory, it makes the scanning much quicker, compared to the often wonky iSight scanning.
1-23-2008 @ 8:54AM
artifex said...
Could you elaborate on the show special pricing, and the secret code or whatever you need, please?
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1-23-2008 @ 9:17AM
Michael Rose said...
Trying to confirm with them now that the special is still ongoing -- I thought I caught the code in the video but clearly I didn't. Moment please...
1-23-2008 @ 10:11AM
artifex said...
I don't know, you might have caught the code. Viddler kept pausing and stuff and I gave up on it. :)
1-23-2008 @ 9:25AM
Byron Fortescue said...
Too bad you can't use it with other software (like delicious library).. For that price they could at least make it interoperable with other software right?
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1-23-2008 @ 10:22AM
Sam Mayes said...
For third party stuff you would need the soho model it seems. 299.00 Im not sure if it would work with delicious or not. Their soho looks really similar to the flic model DM sells
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1-23-2008 @ 10:22AM
Ron said...
Interesting idea, but for most home users, if it isn't operable with Delicious Library or have an open standard, then it's not much use.
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1-23-2008 @ 10:57AM
Fazal Majid said...
The scanner itself is just a rebadged Symbol CS1504, which costs about $100, you are paying through the nose for Intelliscanner's software.
There are a number of open-source driver programs, e.g. my own in Python ( http://www.majid.info/mylos/weblog/2006/03/27-1.html ) or Perl (http://www.obtainium.org/dev/cs1504/cs1504_pl.html).
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1-23-2008 @ 1:01PM
MarioDuke said...
Fazal, would the CS1504 work with the Intelliscaner software or do you think Intelliscanner has a way to block third party hardware?
1-23-2008 @ 11:27AM
Chris Dunphy said...
I remember something like that being handed out for $20 (or was it free) by some Bubble 1.0 startup. It was a keychain sized barcode scanner that you'd keep with you, and scan any interesting products you saw. When you came home and synced, their software would show you everything - and help you find better prices.
I might even still have mine in my gadget drawer. It was super cool to have such a small scanner.
I also had the barcode scanning Que-Cat, sent free to every subscriber of Wired magazine.
It is crazy that this costs so much. A scanner would be wonderfully useful (and worth paying for) if it cost $50, or even better - $30.
- Chris // www.technomadia.com
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1-23-2008 @ 11:27AM
Sam Mayes said...
Well if it isn't open to any apps except theirs then its useless. to any home user. Delicious is the gold standard and no worky there then it wont get bought.
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1-23-2008 @ 11:38AM
Fazal Majid said...
Chris, the device you are thinking of is the Qode Qoder, which was actually made by Intermec, and was even smaller than the CS1504. For some reason Intermec stopped selling it, however. The CS1504 has a more reliable laser scanner engine, on the other hand.
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1-23-2008 @ 11:43AM
Fazal Majid said...
Chris, the device you are thinking of is the Qode Qoder, which was actually made by Intermec, and was even smaller than the CS1504. For some reason Intermec stopped selling it, however. The CS1504 has a more reliable laser scanner engine, on the other hand.
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1-23-2008 @ 9:17PM
krye said...
Hey that's pretty cool. Very expensive, but cool.
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1-24-2008 @ 12:54PM
navstar said...
Looks cool. But I got a handheld Bluetooth Flic off ebay for $50. It's awesome.
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