PSP homebrew developer Art dropped by the QJ.Net Forums earlier to let the community in on a new project under works, titled PSPrice. This remarkable little homebrew application turns the PSP into a portable barcode scanner - the scanner attaches by resistor to the PSP mike plug - and is based on Symbol Technologies' barcode scanner used in K-Mart, Target, and Big W retail stores. See the video below for a demonstration:

Art (aka ArtyFart) added these details regarding PSPrice:

The price checking application is actually part of a larger program that was written for stocktaking, and other purposes, but this module was intended as a separate function. It could just as well been a separate program. The PSP application also speaks the price in a high quality Human voice using a speech routine written for the above-mentioned application.

Don't get your hopes up for a public release, however - Art noted that there are no plans for a public release of PSPrice, with this demo simply proving that the ever-flexible PSP can pull off similar functions that more expensive, purpose-built machines do.

Guys interested in reading up more on this application are advised to head on over to Art's thread at QJ.Net's PSP Development Forum, or over to this application's home site (the source link).

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