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Future (perfect) mosaics

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16:56  /  19.12.2006
Karsten Schmidt
London


QR codes are 2D bar codes which are increasingly used to encode URLs and so function as an interface connecting physical places with virtual ones: just point your (supported) camera mobile at a code, snap, open the link in your phone's web browser. Et voila!

Semapedia allows you to annotate places by allowing you to create your own QR codes pointing to Wikipedia articles. Think physically present, distributed micro travel guides... Check the flickr group for other real world uses...
Adoption of QR codes is especially high in Japan, where it's mainly been used for advertising. Jan Chipchase, Principal Researcher in the Mobile HCI Group at Nokia Research, has snapped some great mosaics purely made up of hundreds of individual bar codes.






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Wow, that's a huge (and so basic) concept.
It's time to live in the future. I will certainly use it (even if I haven't the right phone to proceed...)

Thanks

Posted by Pierre aka P
08:49  /  21/12/2006



I'm working on Lift conference, and I discovered the blog of Jan Chipchase, and i'm really impressed by the pictures he took between Lhassa and China, and how technologies and communication grow up faster and faster there.

Posted by fichtre
00:49  /  22/12/2006



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