Editing CueCat (section)

{{Short description|Cat-shaped handheld barcode reader}}
[[File:CueCat barcode scanner.jpg|thumb|CueCat barcode scanner and [[interposer]] cables with male and female [[PS/2 connector]]s ]]
The '''CueCat''', styled ''':CueCat''' with a leading colon, is a cat-shaped handheld [[barcode reader]] designed to allow a user to open a link to an Internet [[Uniform Resource Locator|URL]] by [[Optical scanner|scanning]] a [[barcode]]. The devices were given away free to Internet users starting in 2000 by the now-defunct Digital Convergence Corporation.{{cn|date=November 2024}}

By year-end 2001, barcodes were no longer distributed for the device, and scanning with the device using its original software no longer yielded results.   The CueCat can read several common barcode types, in addition to the proprietary CUE barcodes which had been promoted by Digital Convergence.