A person scans that label with a PDA, or "gun" (it's shaped kind of like the "type II" phaser from the original Star Trek, but with a display and keyboard on its dorsal surface).And so I was inspired to come up with this:
We've fooled around with those - I've got one in my desk - but in the end went for the scanner tied to a PC. Too expensive for us when you add up the cost of a wireless network and the other infrastructure.
The gals in receiving have no end of complaints about having to use a scanner tied to a PC - it's damned awkward to do things that way. Plus the winter weather is really hard on the PC parked by the roll up doors.
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We might speculate that the original designs for the Type II called for a display screen ..
It looks like you're trying to stun a Klingon - would you like some help with that?
But the Star Fleet users have more say-so in their gear than grunts do in the 21st century.
Which I generated at the Error Message Generator site, of course.
