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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (37102)	8/31/2000 3:44:08 PM
From: Demosthenes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Brian, <<Another use of a chip somewhere you may not expect.>> That is amazing. What next? Just amazing. D

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (37102)	9/1/2000 1:56:36 AM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 70976

Brian, more on chip use where I didn't expect it: the Cue Cat is a bar code reader that is given away free by Radio Shack and Forbes [mailed to subscribers]. With it you read special bar code [so far only in Forbes] below ads and near articles. This takes you directly to the bar coded web site. radioshack.com I installed mine this morning and tried it out using Forbes' "Best of Web" issue. It works, although you have to swipe just right [so do the checkers in the supermarket]. It is, of course, another attempt to sell you goods. But I can see magazines and newspapers using it to send you to web sites for more background info on an article, too. Gottfried