QRZ will soon be adopting QR-Code at various places around the site.
"What is it?" you ask...
Well, it's a two-dimensional bar code that is readable by mobile phone cameras. A QR Code can contain up to 4K of data, but is really useful for website links. See something interesting but don't have time to write? Just take a picture of it with your cellphone and you've got the data.
Id like to see more details on this please. The information links mainly referenced cell phones.
Please discuss more this information and any additional links.
Thanks,
Andrew
Japan has been using these QR codes for many years now. You see them on billboards in cities, in magazine ads, everywhere.
Most cellphones in Japan have the decoders built in, so if anyone sees a billboard or advertisement, they snap a photo of it, and have all the information, website addresses, etc, in the QR code. You can even have it store names, phone numbers and addresses this way.
A popular novelty T-shirt, when decoded, says: This is a shirt.
I have seen it made on everyting from cookies and cakes to coffee mugs.
Neat technology and I don't understand why it has not been as popular in the US.
I remember those watches you could buy that were programmable that you held the watch up to your computer screen and it literally "flashed" the data into it.....
Anybody remember the CueCat? I'm pretty sure that debacle had a cooling effect on this technology here in the States.
What had a cooling effect on that was the lack of transparency and the utter stupidity of the deployment. Who has so much time as to sit on their computer and swipe that thing across Cuecat codes for hours on end so they can look at freaking ads? Even the most optimistic ad agency knows that there has to be some value proposition in order to get consumers to do anything -- and it could be really stupid, but there still has to be perceived value other than getting a free mostly-useless bar code reader from Rat Shack.
What's cooled things like this in the United States is the walled-garden concept that cellular providers have yet to dismantle. They're starting to get it that people don't want that, and that the "internet" is supposed to be the internet, not their idea of what they think you want.
This is cool because if something does interest you, you don't have to tap in all the keys on the device to get there. Of course, there will be idiots that put this on the sides of buses without any sort of explanation as to what it is, and then wonder why their marketing campaign failed, but that's their problem. I can see how this is cool and useful -- unlike the Cuecat.
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