Be Shopsavvy

Trendwatching.com: Shopsavvy, an Android app, allows the user to scan almost any barcode using the phone’s camera, and it will then search over 20,000 online and local retailers to find the best price. Once the best deal has been found, users can either purchase online, or use the phone’s built-in Google Maps feature to find their way to the store. Which means that even impulse buys aren’t ‘safe’ anymore: this may entice even the most buy-ready, real-world shoppers to postpone their purchase for a few minutes 😉 Shopshavvy won the 2008 Google Android Developers contest and has been launched in the US, UK, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic
Transparency Triumph [TrendWatching.com]