[dgarrett]

The CueCat has a wire.

Possibly a case of doing one thing wrong that ruined the entire product. We'll see.

[chockablock]

CueCat also required proprietary software to be installed on a PC or Mac. It was not a standalone device.

And the industrial design! It was a chintzy elongated white plastic cat, with an IR window across the mouth. And it was finicky as hell to use, compared to a real barcode scanner.

[ams6110]

At the time, though, Bluetooth was neither common nor very easy to work with on home PCs.