The fact that some manufacturers do require that level of accuracy has made a nice little niche for the 100-employee Microscan, which makes fixed-mount bar code scanners incorporated into other manufacturers'equipment.
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It uses a cell phone that has a bar code scanner and is connected to a World Wide Web site featuring a software agent that then shops the Internet for better deals.
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That predictability has allowed scientists to devise instruments that automatically " read " the genetic pattern from a tissue sample, in the same way bar code scanners pick prices off grocery items.
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The result : an increase in nontraditional print ads that fold out, up or down; come with Post-It Notes or perforations; and require special devices like 3-D glasses or bar code scanners.
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The machines _ along with faster printers, hand-held bar code scanners and improved in-counter scanners installed by Kmart last year _ are expected to cut the wait, Kmart spokeswoman Mary Lorencz said Thursday.
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The Aero 2100 also has a slot for interchangeable cards that can add such enhancements as a 56K modem, a pager card, 20 to 40 megabytes of additional RAM or a bar code scanner.
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But in a career in which he obtained more than 500 patents covering technologies from automated warehouses to video camcorders and bar code scanners, he spent most of his life struggling to make ends meet.
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Inside stores, retailers are using wireless devices enhanced with bar code scanners to give their employees mobile access to information about products in the store _ including what's in stock and what products are compatible.
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Technology is the key to many of Bloomberg's proposals, from expanding the use of cameras in known drug locations to giving officers hand-held computers and bar code scanners so they can scan the codes on drivers'licenses.
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Most of what a scanner does, in fact, involves " filtering out noise " to determine what things it sees are really bar codes, says Craig Maddox, product line director for bar code scanners with NCR Corp.
