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September 09, 2004
QR Codes
After looking at the use of barcodes in Perry Hoberman's Workaholic and barcode hotel, I was reminded of just how much information you could store in the NEXT GENERATION OF BARCODE. Yep, you've seen them on UPS packages, and they have a name: QR Codes. Two dimensional barcodes.
NFG Games has a great little tool for creating QR codes out of any text data you want to store. Seems to be a very Japanese thing, moving photos of these things around between cell phones, and it's pretty darn nifty. 30% of the code can be obscured and the data will still be properly parsed. Wonder why guys on this side of the pond don't use it more...
Posted by diamante at September 9, 2004 01:04 AM
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Yep, bar codes are amazing. My father did some research about bar code 3 years ago. They can store 15sec music and sound track in a 0.5cm * 4cm bar code. And they print it on kids books.
Ironically, Japan has those technology 5 or 6 years ago. But the market of these high density barcode is not familiar at that time. Today with RFID and all the other new techs. Barcodes seem to be forgotten.
Posted by: Jenova at September 9, 2004 11:01 AM
It's too bad...because I think the visual aspect of barcodes immediately makes it far more interesting than the RFID...
Posted by: Vincent at September 9, 2004 11:48 AM
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