The Code That Ate Tokyo

[azguy]

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

[Manowar]

japanese always get the neat stuff first, probably because they invent it

[Rebecca Love]

Made in Japan. hehe