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There are a lot of shopping list applications available for the
Palm (haven't tried any yet). The input is the bottleneck. It
is
easier to scan the barcode of an item that you trash in the
kitchen, just like the guy on the website icepick.com does
(you can see on-line what is in his garbagecan).
What is
missing is a barcode scanner that can be attached to the
cradle side of the Palm (the springboard-slot on my Visor is
already full with my VisorPhone). Something like that IR-
thing
to turn your Palm into a remote control. I see shop
assistants
using a similar kind of barcode equipment for stock
inventory. The
scanner on the Palm would create a record in a database
for each new barcode. Each record can be named
manually, with more information than the obvious, like:
"sister in
law is allergic to this" and "great mix with that .. drink",
"barbara's addiction", "it looks great but it tastes awful!"
etc.
Records can be linked together in a receipe. The records
can
be beamed to other Palms. Just the barcodenumber if you
are
only giving your shopping list to a shop assistant or the
whole
record with references if you are swapping receipes with
friends. When you are syncing with your computer the
barcodes translate into an order for on-line shopping. It
also allows for associative shopping. You see beautiful
tomatoes for sale, scan the barcode and your receipes of
great things you can do with tomatoes appear. You can
choose the one for which you already have most other
ingredients at home according to the stock inventory in
your Palm.
Wired house
http://www.icepick.com what is trashed is scanned [rrr, Nov 09 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]
List of Palm shopping list apps
http://www.palmgear...35&CFTOKEN=69456973 Applications for the Palm to maintain a shopping list [rrr, Nov 09 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
IR module
http://www.pacificneotek.com/omnihw.htm IR module plugs into bottom of Palm [rrr, Nov 09 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Plug-In scanner for windows-based palm thingies
http://www.cdw.com/...ault.asp?EDC=100068 [quarterbaker, Nov 09 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Site #1 for PalmPilot scanner thing
http://www.semicron.com/palmpilot.html [quarterbaker, Nov 09 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Site #2 for PalmPilot scanner thing
http://www.barcode.com/symspporbarc.html [quarterbaker, Nov 09 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
more scanners
http://online.symbo...5376&prrfnbr=279922 one keychain-sized, one for the Visor, one for stores [hello_c, Nov 09 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Hacking the Cue:Cat
http://www.i-hacked.com/cuecat/ If the consumer goods are too pricey for you, find a Cue:Cat and dig in [hello_c, Nov 09 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Palm software to understand Cue:Cat barcodes
http://www.alpha-ne...rs2/yawata/pccatDA/ [hello_c, Nov 09 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
(?) Bristol's barcoded art app on iPAQ
http://www65.pair.c...lz/ccBarcodeApp.jpg Crappy pic of my iPAQ caught in the act of scanning. [bristolz, Nov 09 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]
:PHatCat
http://idleprocess.virtualave.net/ beware of bountiful popups [LoriZ, Nov 09 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Symbol SPT1550
http://www.barcodeg.../symbol/spt1550.htm Palm device (with scanner) from Symbol, this one's just under $400. [philmar, Oct 23 2006]
CS 1504 Consumer Memory Scanner enables customers
http://www.scansmar.../catalog/cs1504.asp Capture barcodes on retail merchandise in order to create a shopping lists [mickey, Jan 02 2008]
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Baked. See links provided (sorry, they're commercial links - I provided 2 competitors for the Palm thing so as to not be seen as biased). You can get the palm OS item for $375 or so.
Try doing a google search before posting. |
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It seems baked to some extent indeed. But the
implementations you
link are for business use. For us simple souls they are
quite useless. The software I describe is not included, it's
a 'productivity tool'. For consumers it needs to be fun. |
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I actually own a SocketCom CF-slot barcode scanner for my iPAQ. No, really! |
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And what can you do with it bristolz? |
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It's a bit commercial. I built an application, using Pocket Internet Explorer (pIE) and XML/XSL, that allows folks to scan barcodes affixed to works of art in our corporate halls and get back a little Web page with info about the art work and the artist. People really like it, so much so that the curator for the collection is adopting the idea for widespread use throughout the collection. The scanner itself is a marvel, easy on batteries and with great acuity, it can snag a scan from a couple feet away in about a tenth of a second. I put up a photo of my app scanning an artwork (see link) |
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My tomatoes never have a barcode. Some of them have a URI, but no barcode. |
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Best to make data dumps between devices easy too. |
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[waugs]: I find my iPAQ to be something of a novelty item. I wouldn't spend the $$ on it again until there were new compelling reasons to own one (like combined with a cell-phone). All I seem to use it for is to sync up my home schedule with my work schedule and read the occasional e-book (bio of Thomas Edison at the moment). The battery life is kind of sucky, too. It does have a high coolness factor, though, if that means anything to you. |
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I was wondering if anyone knows of a palm database that can identify the barcode scanned and give the item it is (i.e. given the upc 012000202148, the database says it's Aquafina). |
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As an addition to the funcationlity of your tool, the scanner is linked via wireless broadband that would tell you the price of identical items at nearby supermarkets. |
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