12-08-2004, 09:05 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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The Code That Ate Tokyo
The barcode is so dead. In Japan, where they dish out the future like candy, everything from magazine ads to vending machines bears next-generation identifiers called Quick Response codes. They look like extreme close-ups of television static, but QRs encode data in two directions - up-and-down in addition to the old Universal Product Code's across. So QRs can hold 100 times as much info: URLs, text, and even low-resolution images.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1...tart.html?pg=3
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