This comes from my old TV show Net Talk Interactive, from way back in 2001. I gave an overview on the CueCat barcode reader that was free at RadioShack or came in the mail with your Wired or Forbes magazine.
This product did not make it through the Web 1.0 days, but lives on in mobile phones and other technologies like RFID supply chain management to this day.
We had several introductions of the product, but this one is from one of the inventors himself! Me. :)
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