Free Cat from Radio Shack

[Summerall]

Check out Radio Shack's front page they are giving away a free "cat" device that scans UPC codes or sumpin like that.

www.radioshack.com

 

[phlashphire]

This looks awfully familiar...

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=217921

 

[KBtrade]

Deal has been around for about a month. I got one and played around with it for about 1/2 hour, I have not used it since then.

 

[Mule]

repost,

by the way this thing sucks. Just looks kinda cool having a cat and mouse on your desktop at the same time.

 

[Ranger X]

This is the third time seeing this deal posted on AnandTech. I even saw this deal in a Radio Shack TV commercial and it's funny how everyone says the darn device doesn't work too well because I'm looking at the commercial and the person using it is doing all sorts of cool things with it. Hehe, just thought that was funny.

 

[eyor]

AWWW! It's a :CUECAT! You shouldn't have misleading titles. I was hungry, too!

 

[Bohemian]

Woof.

 

[403Forbidden]

theres some serious hacks for this device...go to that website
that deals with modding Net Appliences (keslerdesigns or something
like that)

 

[kc6tus]

Here kitty, kitty.

 

[Eclipsed]

What happened to the other message thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=217921
talking about the device? DO they archive these after a certain period of time?

 

[subpar]

Picked mine up from radio shack yesterday. I like the comments that it looks like a "marital aid device."

Hope to hack into mine, since I won't install the software....privacy concerns, you know

subpar

 

[Souka]

Junk.....9 out of 10 items scanned. ""WOW! You have found a new item. Please take a moment and tell us more about." LAME!

Right now it is sitting ontop my monitor behind a up-close photo of my eye....put the red led right behind it...cool effect.

My Two Cents...

 

[beta2000]

My friends got one but he told me it somehow conflicted with his NIC. He had to throw it away. Maybe that's why it is free.

 

[rigor2]

his nic?

It plugs into the keyboard.

whadda lamer.


I have two of these not sure what to do with them.

The GF has nixed: Barcoding everything in the house.

Barcoding the food and keeping inventory (she does it) and creating a script
to notify webvan of utilized items for auto-reorder (shot down)

Sex toy (doesn't vibrate)

Toy for cat (cat doesnt like it)

 

[Wagner]

The CueCat can actually become a very useful device. It has a red laser beam on the tip of its nose. As you know, objects appear red to us because they reflect the red wavelengths in the radiation spectrum. Hence, by firing off a red laser beam, and intercepting the reflected light, and analyzing it, the CueCat can determine the "redness" of the object being scanned.

The CueCat already has hardware that determines the wavelength of an intercepted light ray. (That's how it differentiates between black and white.) It is a simple matter to write software that will return the "redness" of the object being scanned. Furthermore, we all know that healthy human tissue is a bright pinkish red, and cancerous tissue is a dull whitish pink.

To wrap this all up, with the right software, the CueCat can serve as a colon cancer detector. All you do is fire up the new CueCat driver, stick the CueCat up your ass, and let it scan your colon. It will tell you if you're doing fine.

 

[subpar]

Wagner, ROTFLMAO!

Digital Convergence is distributing 10 million rectal scanners for free.

subpar

 

[huey1124]

Wagner:

you should market the idea. sounds much simpler than the current colo-rectal exam they do now (minus the cat being stuck up your butt)