Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Wired News: Camera Phones Link World to Web
Realising that a camera phone is not simply a digital camera and a phone (obvious to some, not so to others), the possibilities for its use become hugely wider. This example uses the camera as a scanner to take impages of special bar codes, which are reinterpreted as URLs, and the phones browser is directed straight there. So as you walk along, you can snap away at all the tagged information, and get more details about where you are. It's the ultimate mobile information system, a neat bit of context awareness triggering which attaches location and content via a small barcode that can be easily accessed. Cool stuff: so the challenge is, can you think of a killer app for this sort of usage - and can you think of any new ways to use your camera phone as a mobile scanner?
Realising that a camera phone is not simply a digital camera and a phone (obvious to some, not so to others), the possibilities for its use become hugely wider. This example uses the camera as a scanner to take impages of special bar codes, which are reinterpreted as URLs, and the phones browser is directed straight there. So as you walk along, you can snap away at all the tagged information, and get more details about where you are. It's the ultimate mobile information system, a neat bit of context awareness triggering which attaches location and content via a small barcode that can be easily accessed. Cool stuff: so the challenge is, can you think of a killer app for this sort of usage - and can you think of any new ways to use your camera phone as a mobile scanner?
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