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> A finger laser scanner [...] would be a gamechanger and could really speed things up and reduce lost or misrouted cartons. Full ACK. Recently stumbled over h

by ktpsns 7y ago

> A finger laser scanner [...] would be a gamechanger and could really speed things up and reduce lost or misrouted cartons. Full ACK. Recently stumbled over https://www.proglove.com/ https://www.proglove.com/ which is in fact a gread ingredient. I whish to have such devices as an end user for reasonable money (for various inventarisation purposes). Maybe that's something we will have in ~10 yrs. The hardware still seems way to expensive.

Klathmon 7y ago
the finger/hand mounted laser scanners are nothing new, they've been around for years. Even something like this: https://www.amazon.com/d/Bar-Code-Scanners/Barcode-Scanner-Wireless-Bluetooth-Wearable/B01GG11G2W https://www.amazon.com/d/Bar-Code-Scanners/Barcode-Scanner-W... The downside is that they don't have displays, so the amount of information the user can receive is limited without them looking at a device, which then defeats the purpose of hand mounting the scanner in most cases. And even the ones with displays are almost always mounted on the hand, so the user can't be carrying something and reading the display at the same time. A head mounted display with a hand mounted scanner solves this issue.
- toast0 7y ago
  When i worked at fedex for two weeks in like 2002, they had the ring scanners attached to an arm strapped terminal. As i recall it had maybe a 2-line character display and a qwerty keyboard. It's been many years, so I don't totally remember, but I think it was scan the box on the rollers, then load it into the truck, then scan the next etc. The ring scanner couldn't do the 2d barcodes though. It looks like the current models are a lot bulkier, probably to have the rotation needed for the 2d codes. I couldn't find the model online, but I did find an article about it. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2589161/fedex-ground-unveils--80m-package-delivery-system.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2589161/fedex-ground-u...

by ktpsns 7y ago

Klathmon 7y ago

the finger/hand mounted laser scanners are nothing new, they've been around for years. Even something like this: https://www.amazon.com/d/Bar-Code-Scanners/Barcode-Scanner-Wireless-Bluetooth-Wearable/B01GG11G2W https://www.amazon.com/d/Bar-Code-Scanners/Barcode-Scanner-W... The downside is that they don't have displays, so the amount of information the user can receive is limited without them looking at a device, which then defeats the purpose of hand mounting the scanner in most cases. And even the ones with displays are almost always mounted on the hand, so the user can't be carrying something and reading the display at the same time. A head mounted display with a hand mounted scanner solves this issue.

toast0 7y ago
When i worked at fedex for two weeks in like 2002, they had the ring scanners attached to an arm strapped terminal. As i recall it had maybe a 2-line character display and a qwerty keyboard. It's been many years, so I don't totally remember, but I think it was scan the box on the rollers, then load it into the truck, then scan the next etc. The ring scanner couldn't do the 2d barcodes though. It looks like the current models are a lot bulkier, probably to have the rotation needed for the 2d codes. I couldn't find the model online, but I did find an article about it. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2589161/fedex-ground-unveils--80m-package-delivery-system.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2589161/fedex-ground-u...