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[yerond]

we need a barcode reader to read it :p

[Atomicbomb22]

First we must find out wtf this thing is...
someone with good photoshop skillz needs to find out the names on the batteries and the names on the chips and search them on the internet so we can find out wht we're dealing with. I really doubt its an xbox 2 cuz aaci would be a recent hardware company---i dunno just speculation i guess but someone do what i said above please and post results (i would have photoshop but 680 dollars is too much for me)


BTW i think that barcode is just what is a code. and i think tht there is a way to read it without going to 100's of stores looking for a match

[sprant]

that has to be it, it none of the blocks overlap, they're beside eachother...

Maybe there's some pice of software that'll let you use jpg to read barcodes, or maybe somone could print and put it through a scanner somewhere else, and see if it sipts up a number.

[xgf]

I used to have a thing that pluged into my computer and read barcodes, it was callled a CAT optical reader

[JoeOE18]

I think barcodes only mean something when you have something to reference them to...just a barcode on its own doesn't mean anything.

[Hyperion]

Hmm...seems a bit too complicated there if you ask me. I mean the previous challenges have been rather simple once you've finally found the answer, I don't think going to the trouble of creating a barcode and then scanning it is exactly what they're looking for.

I'm liking this 25 anniversary connection. Seems the most concrete so far. Although it's most likely that the aaci.com is a red herring.

I think it's definitely the white lines (or holes) that we should be paying attention to, why else would they be there?

[noideaforausername]

[Hyperion]

Apologies for the double post, perhaps I should actually register an account.

I think the pianola idea could be on the right track. It seems to me like the one theory about the holes so far that seems plausible.

[Exulus]

You don't need to scan a barcode to interpret it. Have none of you done PuzzleDonkey before? :p ( www.puzzledonkey.com )

One of the puzzles on that last year was to work out a barcode number...now if i can dig up the website i used to translate it then i may be able to do it. Of course though it all depends on whether its in a standard barcode form..with the centre pipes and the end pipes. I'll have a look around now.

[noideaforausername]

[JoeOE18]

Oh yeah you could work out the number couldn't u...*hit's himself*

But that would then be another code rather than an answer

[sprant]

maybe the code IS the answer

[JoeOE18]

[noideaforausername]

[Exulus]

To whoever made the barcode image...it would be extremely helpful if it was made bigger, and a vertical grid put across it with spacing equal to that of the thinnest bar, so you can judge how many empty "lines" there are between each black block. Thats assuming it IS a barcode anyway...hmm i think i might register on this site