“Tired of picking up and putting down a scanner every time you need to scan a bar code?” reads the copy for Socket’s new Cordless Ring Scanner Series 9, and it’s like they’ve totally been reading our minds. Seriously, even though we haven’t done the bar code thing since our pre-Engadget days at the corner grocery, we definitely see the advantages of a light, wearable, Bluetooth scanner for the repetitive drudgery of inventory management. The CSR Series 9, which will available through direct channels next month, is made of ruggadized LiquidMetal (since it’s trademarked it must be good tech) and consists of a small Class 2 laser tacked to a finger ring and tethered to a wrist-mounted Bluetooth transmitter. Included keyboard emulation software allows the bar code data to be directed into empty fields of any PC application, and even lets the user remotely enter carriage returns and tabs. If this product’s non-consumer status wasn’t obvious to you already, the $1200 price tag should help clear things up.