ScienceHideout
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Awesome Idea- for techie people
How many of you keep a chem inventory? I do! I would hope you all would. Have you ever noticed how difficult keeping an inventory is on paper, or on a
computer in the other room? We all have our iPads, iPods, or iPhones with us nearly all the time... so what if we could scan a chemical bottle- it
would give us safety info, we can tell it how much we are going to use, and BOOM! A complete inventory on our iPods!
Who ever is smart enough to make this... please. 
hey, if you are reading this, I can't U2U, but you are always welcome to send me an email!
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AndersHoveland
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I think this would be bordering on the obsessive-compulsive.
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Have another/additional ideas, though linked to topic and such could easily be joined in such an app.
Inventory lists could get one of the hook from authorities if that ever happened in this day and age as alot of the charges usually are linked to not
keeping inventory/quantity and lack of labeling, which actually, atleast in Norway, is illegal.
But would guess it had to be linked to a online database of sorts if identification with physical data would be the output. There is a lot of good
open databases online so it should not pose to big a problem but complicates things.
Personally, as a basic chem lecturer, use ChemBioDraw from Cambridge to name molecules from structure and visa-versa. Also use Chemix from a Norwegian
guy, extremly useful and highly accurate chemical calculator with many features which I 've not even used.
So to my point, though do not know if any such app exists, I would like IUPAC naming from structure (know Sigma-Aldrich have a product search from
structure, though not universally useful), molecular calculator with possibility to store/save molecules as in Chemix, linked to a synonym or IUPAC
database of sorts so one could get CAS from structure, and some sort of search function to get e.g. Merck Index data by structure and name.
As a summary:
IUPAC naming from structure
molecular calculator with possibility to store/save molecules as in Chemix
IUPAC to CAS and visa-versa
Merck Index "like" data from structure/CAS/IUPAC
Inventory with name recognition through camera(from original labels) with possiblility for atleast keeping track of approx. quantities and general
safety data(Though in my opinion one should not use anything that one not have familiarized oneself with from the start, not just read a skull label
and think that that sign will keep one safe...) .
Just to entice any coders, such an app would be bought by all chemistry students in the world so alot om cash could be made..
BTW, Chemix has this store/save function mentioned above, though it is only name and not quantities or any other data other than moleweight of the
molecule.
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hkparker
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Just print QR codes with links in them. I might consider doing that.
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I keep an inventory that I update once-twice a year in MS Excel. It's not detailed, though.
And I see hparker was faster.
Yes, QR codes would be a neat thing. Generators are widely available, and every decent mobile phone with Java support and a few MPx camera can read the codes.
Although that's a cheap solution, it's slow.
For all of you with extra money on the hand, this might be a thing to try out. 
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i wouldn't put anything on any apple device you don't want publicly known. to be part of the i-device generation is to give up any shred of privacy
you may have had.
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I do not use anything, software or hardware, associated with apple, except quicktime when a website requires it because I have some strong
disagreements with how they respect their users.
Fortunately, any modern phone can scan a QR, my android has had it for years.
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I would think that a lot of us here are attached enough to our chemicals that we know exactly what we have and in what quantity  . But for those who have too much to keep track of with plain memory, QR codes is
probably a good idea. The links can be to some MSDS's from one company, and an app can be developed to scan each QR code link to that company and
store inventory.
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hkparker
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Quote: Originally posted by barley81  | | I would think that a lot of us here are attached enough to our chemicals that we know exactly what we have and in what quantity . |
...yeah
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No, we don't. Apple holds only a fragment of the market, but they're very loud so everything they make appears big and appeals to people that aren't
tech-wise.
I've always thought that true geeks like the characters from The Big Bang Theory ought to be would never use an iPhone. It's obvious that Apple is the
series sponsor.
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My geeky bioinformatics collegues all use macs, and I do a lot my programming and electronic hardware design on a macbook too, so some geeks/tech-wise
people prefer macs too, but please let's not turn this into a mac vs PC debate.
It won't do to keep track of stock just by the name of the compound, because you can have multiple vials of it in stock.
It would also be great if the app would tell you quickly how much to weigh out approximately for a given volume and concentration of a desired
solution, so you don't have to look up the MW for each compound and carry a calculator around.
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