I Can Read You

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[Protein° Feed] Active Posters are screens or standard posters displaying QR codes which can be read by camera phones and used to access content such as music, films and information.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Iankennedy.typepad.com] Flashpoint: QR Code shortcuts text entry: This is  old news for those of you who have been to Japan. Anyone that's used UPS or Fedex has seen these newfangled barcodes (QR code stands for "quick read") that allow them to be scanned from any direction. There is a lot of information that you can pack into these codes which can hold up to 3,000 alphanumeric characters on a single square. Squint your eyes and you can also see the Mona Lisa.

[picturephoning.com] Active Posters - RFID Art: Active Posters - RFID Art IMG icanreadu.jpg I Can Read You is a new artwork being developed by artist Simon Poulter as a part of a wider research project called Active Posters. via Protein Feed "Active Posters are screens or standard posters displaying QR codes which can be read by camera

[Textually.org] picturephoning.com: In the supermarket, consumers use camera equipped cell phones to scan the QR code on the label. The code links to a mobile website detailing origin, soil composition, organic fertilizer content percentage (as opposed to chemical), use of pesticides and herbicides and even the name of the farm it was grown on".

[Imodestrategy.com] i-mode Business Strategy: | 04.09.12 | Weekly i-mode Business ...: Although the QR code is a JIS Standard and an ISO standard, it is a proprietary standard of Denso Wave (a division of Denso Corporation at the time) and is only used in Japan.  There is in fact a competing standard 2D encoding format in the public domain, the Data Matrix format (see http://www.rvsi.com/acuitycimatrix/index.htm for more information). Data Matrix is supported by an ISO standard, ISO/IEC16022, and a US military specification, MIL-STD-130L.  However, this public domain format is not seen in Japan whereas the QR code is rapidly growing in usage and familiarity.

[Iankennedy.typepad.com] Flashpoint: Call it Kennedy's Rolling Window of news & perspective. The cheap seats only let you see what's directly in front of the window while subscribers get to see not only what's coming down the pike but also dig back and review what's gone by. Each time you see a story fly by that you wish you could have read sooner or wanted to read later, you'll be fingering your credit card and thinking about the value of that $49.95 subscription.

[Ubiks.net] RFID in Japan: July 2004 Archives: Marine World, a major aquarium in the Japanese city of Fukuoka, uses 2D bar codes (QR codes) to deliver information to their visitors. Visitors can get in-depth information about various underwater creatures by scanning QR codes using their camera phones. It is a bi-lingual (Japanese and English) service delivering information in the language of your choice. If you don¡Çt have a camera-phone you can rent one from the aquarium for a dollar.

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Posted at May 27, 2005 11:35 AM