I first saw this app a little over a year ago when people were talking about it at SXSW. It makes your iSight or DV camera hooked up to your Mac into a barcode scanner. It's called Delicious Library and it's from Delicious Monster.
When you hold up a book, movie or music CD barcode to the camera, it scans the code, looks it up on the Internet, and loads in a bunch of information about that piece into a database stored on your Mac. It also downloads cover art, or book covers so that you have a visual representation of what is in the database.
It just rocks.. I had one or two of my first ten DVDs refuse to scan initially - I think it may have had something to do with the reflectivity of the plastic because every book scanned instantly.
It does have a "recommendation" engine that suggests if you like this movie you might like these others. What I'm wondering is has anyone created the inevitable mashup of this app with Netflix's queue/rating mechanism. Since I've rated 1500-odd movies on Netflix one would think there are all kinds of possibilities (I think it currently uses something from Amazon but I have to do some research).
A recommended app for use with OS X.
Posted by artandscience at May 10, 2006 07:22 AM