Thursday, January 28
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I just downloaded this RedLaser iPhone App (Search for Occipital in the App Store). It’s $1.99 but already I can see its value.
You hold anything with a UPC code up to the camera on your iPhone, and it will search the database of over 400,000 products (and growing) to find your match. Then it gives you the results of the item in Google Product Search and TheFind. It will also show you prices and the nearest store where you can buy the product.
After installing it, I literally grabbed the closest retail product with a barcode on it, a can of Lemon Pledge. In a relatively dark room it correctly scanned the item in seconds, and told me that I could buy it from the Walgreens 2 miles away for $5.79.
That’s pretty slick. And that’s just scratching the surface of this app. After receiving the comment below from Vikas Reddy at Occipital, I grabbed the nearest book, scanned the UPC and got this:
