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    Sarah Perez
    February 10th, 2012

    OpenLabel Exits Stealth, Raises $80K To Turn Barcodes Into Public Labels

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    OpenLabel, a startup that wants to augment everyday products’ barcodes with crowd-sourced information that helps you decide whether to buy, has raised $80,000 in seed funding in a round led by Peter Kirwan, also an investor in IFTTT. Also participating in the round were Tim Drees and Doug Taylor. According to OpenLabel co-founder Scott Kennedy, this $80K is just the first part of a larger $300,000… → Read More

    Sarah Perez
    August 31st, 2011

    Pushpins Launches SimpleUPC: Product Information-As-A-Service

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    Pushpins, Inc., the makers of a mobile app for saving on groceries, have launched a new service called SimpleUPC targeted towards mobile app developers. SimpleUPC, which is available as an API (application programming interface), provides product information as a service for the use in mobile apps like barcode scanners, shopping lists and nutrition trackers.

    The API contains data on over… → Read More

    Scott Merrill
    July 8th, 2009

    My belt buckle, let me show you it.

    I wrote in late may about QR code belt buckles. Well, mine finally arrived. That’s it right there, in all its glory. “What does it say?” you wonder? I admit I was entirely unoriginal, and made a QR belt buckle that encodes the URL of my personal website. I’m a dork! → Read More

    John Biggs
    January 6th, 2009

    IntelliScanner Mini: What the heck?

    I might be drinking too much tonight but isn’t this teeny scanner a bit too small? Oh, wait… it’s a barcode scanner. I see now. Anyway. The Intelliscanner Mini is basically the smallest barcode scanner in the whole wide world and could, potentially, be a choking hazard. It costs $179 online for the Media version (for scanning books) and $249 for the all-inclusive package. → Read More