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Startup Idea:Barphone (A Cellphone with a Barcode Scanner that uploads online discount

1 pointsby Ariesabout 17 years ago
Basically I want to create a cell phone that can scan Barcodes and automatically uploads you to Ebay or Tigerelectronics or Amazon For Example So if your at BEST BUY and you see USB for $35 at Best Buy and you scan the barcodes using your Barphone you are taken to one of the mentioned sites and are able to save $20 as well read comments from other consumers in realtime. Would this be something the World would want? I would need four timezone HQ in the U.S for midnight resynchronization, but would this be a disrupter for BEST BUY, WALMART, MACYS, ETC EMAIL ME PLEASE Aries Alvarez alvin1inc@gmail.com

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hchoabout 17 years ago
Another item in the BOM is the last thing mobile manufacturers need. Why not use the camera instead? With some image recognition magic, you can come up with a working prototype.