"Eventually, the widespread availability of barcode scanner smartphone apps made the CueCat's capabilities mostly superfluous". No kidding. My phone will pick

"Eventually, the widespread availability of barcode scanner smartphone apps made the CueCat's capabilities mostly superfluous". No kidding. My phone will pick up pretty much any bar code or QR code it sees with the camera and offer to display it or open the URL. It's actually impressive how quickly it picks up even tiny/distant codes.