IntelliScanner : For The Anal Retentive Inside Us, Screaming To Get Out

Even though I am actively working to own less crap — in fact I am operating on the ‘buy something/trash something’ karmic law of ownerness, based on the assumption that your possessions possess you, not the other way around — still there is something dangerously attractive about the tiny little scanner that you can use to catalog your possessions.

IntelliScanner - Organize Everything, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.

Exactly why I would want to spend the time to swipe every book I own, I don’t know. Unless I was swapping them on some service. This would help with participation in Lala or Peerflix, I guess.

On a practical level, swiping the bar codes on food and other crap to automatically create a shopping list might be cool. Keep one in the kitchen, and swipe the cans and bottles as you put things in the recycles.

But I am just rationalizing, cause it looks like a cool gizmo.