Keep Your Membership Cards In Your iPhone
I HATE store cards. You know, those bar code cards that EVERY store makes you keep in your wallet to in order to get discounts? I have a veritable BRICK of them in my purse.
‘t Is Goud had a good idea.
He scanned his cards using a scanner and put the photos on his iPhone. The screen on the iPhone is good enough that a scanner can read the bar code from the scanned card. A good way to slim down your brick of cards in your wallet is to carry scans of the cards in your iPhone.
I tried this and they look pretty good:
Now, all I have to do is test this theory. I’m sure I can use my iPhone scanned card at the self-checkout in the grocery store, but will Costco let me into the store with just the scan of my card? Will the library scan my phone instead of my actual card? Sure, it could lighten my load, but I think I’ll carry my brick of cards with me until I know which stores will accept my iPhone proxy and which won’t.
Via: Scanning wallet cards into the iPhone – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)