5 Aug 2004 by Chris     No Comments    Posted under: Other Stuff

Visiting websites without typing

I like this. How do you get web URLs from paper (or other physical media) into
people’s PCs, phones, TVs or whatever, when they just won’t type them in?
Enter the 2D barcode. It’s easy to represent web URLs in this format. And
guess what? Every self-respecting teenager is now walking around with their
own barcode scanner (a very sophisticated one, it’s true!) in the form of
their camera phone. Put the two together and you can get the public to visit
websites without them already being on the web to follow links.
If this takes off, expect to see lower-tech applications follow. For
example, I’d have thought a 2D barcode scanner could be added inexpensively
to your PC mouse, so you just wave it over a 2D barcode representing a web
URL and up it pops on your screen. Just remember me when you
make your first billion pounds.

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