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Honeywell Captuvo iPod Sled
This is Travis with POSGuys.com. Today we're taking a look at the
Honeywell Captuvo Sled. Uh, this is for taking your iPod Touch and
making it into a mobile computer with scanning capabilities. It slides in
to the top, connects, and latches down. Once that's done, it has an mag-stripe
reader built in, the camera can still be accessed, and you have a scanner
on top of it. This is your power button. Slide to unlock, and your iPod works
just as before. There's a couple free programs that come with Captuvo. They
have limited usability. One of them is basically just to test the functionality
of the Captuvo. Press the scan and you can see the reticle. It has the green
beam reticle for lining up, and is a 2D scanner, so even though the beam
is just horizontal, you can scan it at any direction. The default program
basically will lookup whatever barcode you scan and sort of tell you what it is.
So it's kind of a price-checking application. [beeping]
The scan engine though is pretty aggressive. Like I said, it's omni-directional. You can
scan it any way you want. You can get pretty close to out 2, maybe 3 feet away.
It does 2D barcodes as well, uh, PDF417 will probably be your most common barcode
scanned if you're gonna be doing licenses, maybe data-metric--matrix or QR codes
for shipping applications. Using it outdoors, it's an imager so bright light
won't affect it. [beeping] The other program that's available on
the market for it is the Captuvo Lite, and what it does is it creates a browser scenario
where you have your little address bar there and you can put in a website, and then
scan into the website. It's not quite as useful as Safari, so if there's any features
that you are used to in Safari, such as bookmarking, this doesn't do it. But
you can go a website and scan into your website. So if your company has
a company website, you can go do it. If you want a custom program, our
programming department at POSGuys is capable of providing that. So just
contact us, let us know your specifications, and we'll be happy to quote you out a
custom program. Custom programs can be as cheap as a couple hundred dollars
if you just want to use a company website and you want the browser just to go
straight to the website, scan into a certain field. If you want to do more advanced
lookup, or connect to a database, um, that would require additional programming,
and is quoted on a per job basis, so please just contact sales and let us know.
Uh, this is in the browser, I have the search field highlighted for POSGuys.com
and we'll scan a barcode, and then it just fills in the text field, and search
away. Mag-stripe is built into it as well, it's
a three-track reader if your application supports credit cards or employee cards
with mag-stripes, it is available as well. But the big feature that's gonna be used
is the scanner on top. It is not a wedge device though, so you can't just
use the scanner in any existing application, the application has to have the Captuvo
SDK built into it to scan. It does not work with iCody either which is a
popular alternative for some of our other sleds.
The sled itself has a drop spec, but it doesn't increase the drop spec of the
iPod Touch, so it's not a Otterbox, it won't increase your durability, but
itself, it won't get damaged if you do happen to drop the sled. There is a
battery built into it as well so that it doesn't draw from the battery of
the iPod. There also is a USB port on it, micro USB, so if you need to
charge the device, you don't have to take it out of the sled, you can
just plug in a micro USB cable and charge it that way. You have access
to the main Apple buttons, trigger buttons are on the side.
As far as charging goes, there is the micro USB, or sleds are available to
charge the Captuvo unit independently. For more information on the Honeywell
Captuvo, or to get information on custom programming and developing an
application for your business, please visit our website at www.POSGuys.com.