Zoomer as Consumer Info Tool
Sean Shapira <sds@jazzie.com>
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From: Sean Shapira <sds@jazzie.com>
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Subject: Zoomer as Consumer Info Tool
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The zoomer list has seemed somewhat quiet recently, and
the idea described below seems like it deserves some
attention in the PDA community.
Ob. zoomer tie-in: Is it possible to use the Zoomer IR
hardware to scan a product's bar code? If not, presumably
a wand attachment could be rigged for the async port?
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Sean Shapira sds@jazzie.com (206) 443-2028
Forwarded from the RITIM list:
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 13:41:58 -0400
> From: Richard Layman <rlayman@CAP.GWU.EDU>
>
> [...]
> Relatedly, on the point about the educated information-seeking consumer, I
> read an interesting idea today in the electronic newsletter "The Network
> Observer" by Phil Agre (pagre@weber.ucsd.edu).
>
> He proposes the "wireless consumer movement" using PDAs, bar code
> scanners, and wireless packet communications. While shopping, you could
> point your PDA with its scanner at a product on the shelf, and back from
> the information service you either subscribe to or pay for on-demand comes
> reviews of the product from Consumer Reports, the Wine Spectator, the New
> York Review of Books, etc. And, you can use the same process to record
> your own comments that would be compiled and available online as well.
>
> Interesting idea.
>
> [...]
> Richard Layman
> rlayman@cap.gwu.edu