We've spent time working with laser scanners in context of Digit-Eyes and have had mixed results. The smallest scanner we'd tried turned out to be fairly difficult to use without at least some vision and the larger one, the KDC300i, was nice with its multi-directional scanning (it is actually an imager, not a scanner), but it was quite expensive.
There now seems to be a reasonable middle ground in the KDC200i, a small scanner that we tested recently with the iPhone. We've been working with it in HID mode (that is with it acting as the keyboard does). The results are really very impressive. We've published a review of it and our findings here Review of the KDC200i<http://www.digit-eyes.com/review_of_the_KDC200i.html> and invite you to take a look. Bottom line: We’re still a fan of scanning with visible light and using the Digit-Eyes app on the iPhone. In most cases, the optics on the iPhone and the new iPod and iPad are good enough that the visible-light scanner performed very well. Most of us need only to read the occasional code and it is very nice to just have the one multipurpose device and not have to carry a bunch of extra little bits and pieces of hardware. However, if you are scanning a lot of things and, particularly if you are needing to read a lot of codes, having a scanner can be a very nice tool. We really do like the top-of-the line KDC300, but on a price-performance basis, we think the KDC200i is very hard to beat, particularly if you have a little bit of vision. When we used the KDC200i with the finger-trigger glove, it became an extremely useful tool for handling product inventories and would be an invaluable aid in applications such as working in a retail store where UPC coding was freely available. (the finger trigger glove was so cool that we felt it deserved a review of its own and we'll be publishing one this week, so stay tuned!) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
