Nerve Endings Firing Away

The extent of depending on technology even for the most mundane tasks is amazing. Forget to get that carton of juice or just lazy enough to jot it down on that notepad magneted (yup, I made that up) on the fridge? Fret not, Grocist pops up to your rescue thanks to the Web 2.0 hoopla. You need on your cluttered kitchen platform is a computer with a barcode scanner, baaas! I have to think twice before getting a new coffee maker let alone a scanner which is easily replaceable by a notepad in a drawer. And try wiping the curry stains off that [via Lifehacker].

Update: Fast forward four years, now I have a free app on my iPhone that not only scans the item by barcode apart from manually entering the name but also syncs it with the app on my wife’s iPod Touch. She enters the items to be bought as and when she remembers and it syncs on my iPhone. Heck, she can continue adding items as I am driving to the store so I’ll see them all when I open the list when I reach the store. Don’t you love technology? Or hate it.