Here's the other little product announcement I did for the IHT. It was published on March 19. Unlike the phone, I actually bought this gizmo. And the paper paid me enough for this piece to actually recoup most of the VAT the French authorities slapped on it, oboy. Here it is:
If your bookshelves are bulging, the IntelliScanner bar-code reader can help you catalogue your collection. The scanner itself is about the size of a pack of cigarettes. Once you have purchased the scanner, you must visit the Web site of the manufacturer, Intelli Innovations, and download any of several software packages, including Media Collector (for books, DVDs, CDs and video games), Wine Collector or more specialized programs intended for businesses and heavy-duty online auctioneers.
After the software has been configured, you read the bar codes of your old papery media and shiny new media with the IntelliScanner. The scanner transmits the codes to your PC or Mac via a Bluetooth connection, your computer hunts in Intelli's online archive for the corresponding data, and on your screen appears a wealth of information on each item, including author, title, publisher, price and genre (for books); artist, label and track list (for CDs); and stars, distributor, format and theatrical release date (for DVDs) - plus the cover for each book and disc.
You can tailor the list to include or exclude any of three dozen fields of data. For peripatetic types, the "location" field will be of particular interest; you can indicate whether that copy of "A Moveable Feast" is on a shelf in Paris or in Pop's attic in Peoria, Illinois.
The IntelliScanner is available at www.intellisw.com for $299.
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