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Originally Posted by DixieGal
I had something similar about 10 yrs ago. It connected with a wire, like a mouse, but it was "something cat." You could scan bar codes in magazines and things and it was supposed to take you to the product website. I never really got it to work right, but it was probably a user error.
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Was this the Cue-Cat? I remember seeing ads for it on the Dallas Morning News around 2000 or so. As I recall, it was a complete and utter failure. Almost no one bought it and most people had never even heard of it. This is in spite of the fact that they talked about it every night on one of the local news shows and you couldn't buy a newspaper without seeing something about it. Oddly enough, one of the local radio stations there still uses it as the punchlines of jokes every so often.