When you grow older, you tend to be more forgetful. Or you could say that the life is getting more hilarious these days, which might be a contributor to your forgetfulness. No matter what the reason is, you don’t want that you’ll be repeatedly buying a duplicate, due to you don’t remember whether you’ve bought it or not, for example a CD or a magazine.
Groqit, a pen-sized barcode scanner shall come in handy, if you wanna make use of it to keep a library of all your purchased items. Every consumer item comes with barcodes these days. Whenever you’ve bought an item, such as the OK! Magazine for this month, just have this little pen-sized scanner to scan the barcode. When you’re going to the store again, bring along this Groqit scanner, pick up those items that seem unfamiliar to you and have a scan on the barcodes. And it’ll tell you whether it’s in your collection already.
The Groqit pen-sized barcode scanner comes with an on-board memory of 128MB, but it’s sufficient to let you store up to millions of barcodes. You even can assign categories for the items stored in it for better management.
The device can work independently or can work together with a computer by hooking it up to the USB port and connect to Groqit website, which you can then sync the database stored in the pen to the website and for the translation to the actual product names and information. Groqit pen carries a price tag of $95 and comes with 30 days or 300 free translations, whichever comes first. After using up the given free translation, you’ll have to pay $4.95 a month to continue using the translation service.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Kids – its for you too, and most of what Groqit offers is FREE:
Say you’re 15 and have 10 or 20 video games. You know what you have, or course, but do your friends, aunts & uncles? All the people who might get you something for Christmas?
They are going to get you something boring, because there’s no way they can remember which games you already have, even when they gave them to you last year. So they are going to give you a sweater. Sox. Yuk!
What you can do about this is absolutely FREE, and it involves Groqit’s services. You upload the list of your games (it’s fast because the site fills in 3/4 of the information for you) and keep the list up to date.
Let your Uncle Tim and Aunt Mary know you want them to be Groqit Buddies with you. Then they can see what you have when its time to get you a birthday present; any time they want. You’re not sending them a tacky wish list like a Santa Clause letter — they can just check.
You can put up a Wish List too. The lists of what you already have let people surprise you with something new; if they aren’t that adventurous, they can just get you something from your Wish list.
That’s ONE place you keep up to date, and you can share your lists with as many people as you want. The only limitation is 100 items per category. It’s all free.
FOR COLLECTORS:
For people who are serious collectors — and there are a lot of us — just the word INSURANCE should conjure up some thoughts. The services are mostly free. They are very helpful for large collections, as the tools reduce the drudgery of data entry. We store the data securely on our servers, just in case you ever need it. This is true of the free (100 items per list) services as well as the paid ones.
We encourage people use to the free services; we know some will want the convenience and portability, and buy themselves a Groqit.
Oh, and if you really can’t remember whether or not you bought this month’s OK Magazine, you will also probably misplace your Groqit….)
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:16 pm
One problem with using barcodes is that collectable items do not come with barcodes and those codes can be easily removed. As far as keeping lists of books or video games there could be usage for that.
August 24th, 2008 at 10:36 am
You can still use the free tools to build a list of your treasures, either to share with friends and other collectors, or just for insurance purposes. We store your lists securely on our servers, so in case of disaster the information can be recovered.
You can make as many lists as you like, and give them whatever names you want. The limit is 100 items per list, before we ask you to pay us a monthly fee. You can type in a description or “comment” on each item you put into your lists.
We focus on translating barcodes for Books, Games, music, and Movies, because we can offer more help organizing libraries of those items. But you can have a “library” of anything you want to, from Commemorative Medallions to Star Wars figurines.