Re: AUGD: QR Codes and Meetings
Re: AUGD: QR Codes and Meetings
- Subject: Re: AUGD: QR Codes and Meetings
- From: michael briney <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 08:10:55 -0500
This looks like "Quecat" technology....?
On May 14, 2007, at 7:03 AM, Jo Booth wrote:
We've found this incredible thing called a QR Code. The way this
works is very, very sweet. All you need is a compatible cellphone
(check www.beimac.cn for more - scroll down; you're looking for a
weird semi-barcode-ish like digitized square on the right side of
the page -- and we're not asking you to decipher the Chinese
characters instead). Install the software on your cellphone (beam
it to the cell using Bluetooth). Then, all you need to do is to
launch the app on the phone and aim your camera at this QR Code. A
pre-written message is sent immediately, and all we do is fire
back a boilerplate message asking you for your name, number of
people coming, and preferred language (as we're multilingual).
That's it! You've just spared yourself the hassle of a handwritten
SMS!
(For more on QR codes, which are big in Taiwan, Japan and
Switzerland, see http://reader.kaywa.com/ )
We are pretty sure we're the first Chinese group to do this. I'm
not sure if we're the first around our own planet, but it's...
pretty neat and something that all of you could try out.
I had a bit of a play with the technology here in Wellington, NZ to
try a few things, and was quite impressed. A couple of local
companies used them for tagging goods internally and for delivery
by couriers, and we have more and more phone handset support - so
sooner or later it'll hit here. I work for a nationwide
supermarket co-operative, and have seen the technology used on
grocery items as well - for machine readable food safety
information - though the lower data rate barcodes are still the
main-stay.
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