Excellent idea.  Now to come up with a brilliant disguise.
Candy bar ?  Water Bottle ?
POD

On 2006-Jun 07, at 13:57hrs PM, Barry Gershenfeld wrote:


> I have been asked to build a secret shopper scanner.
> The scanner will be use in grocery stores to scan the
> barcodes of new products.  Must be small to mount
> on the wrist.  Inexpensive is always good.  The interface
> can be RS232, i2c, SPI.
> POD  AGSC

Alternate idea--hide in plain sight.  If it looked ordinary (I was  
thinking
Palm Pilot because they actually made those, but how about a cell  
phone?)
people would see it but not be aware it was being used to scan bar  
codes.

Barry



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