Kitchen Companion 100–the Bar Scanner for Residential Use
The Kitchen Companion 100 home grocery scanner brings technology to the kitchen in a way that’s sure to appeal to gadget lovers everywhere (or anyone who gets excited by the self-check stands at the grocery store). Stick a couple batteries in the scanner, and it’s ready to read the bar codes off all your groceries as you put them away. When you take something out to consume it, you scan again, this time to subtract an item. The running tally of what’s on hand is stored in the scanner’s built-in memory chip. Then when it’s time to make the grocery list, you take the scanner to the computer, much like a digital camera. The information is uploaded, and you’re given a detailed display that can be sorted and modified, then printed out to take shopping.
The scanner isn’t limited to keeping track of food stuffs. Anything with a bar code on it (so anything you buy at the grocery store) is fair game: disposable diapers, toilet paper, cotton swabs, etc. The company says the Kitchen Companion has an Internet-enabled database that lets it keep track of more than 300,000 U.S. grocery items (with the average store containing about 35,000 items). The price for the gadget is $149 for a model that’s attached to your computer (which probably only makes sense if you have a computer right by the fridge) or $249 for a portable unit.
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