Remember the CueCat? The little freebie scanner which was meant to shepherd
customers to promotional websites and e-commerce sites? Remember the uproar
when the penguinheads found a way of getting a free general-purpose bar code
scanner, paid for by the CueCat marketing budget? Well, anti-corporate
culture-jamming outfit RTMark, better known for subverting ads, has topped that
with
CueHack. Scan a product and it
gives you not the promotional website for it, but the dirt on the product
manufacturer's dirty tricks and reasons for boycotting them. Impress your
dreadlocked vegan bicyclist friends! (Assuming they run Windows, that is.)