QR code / Zap
Ever heard of the QR code from Japan?
Quoted from chillycraps long ago,
Traditional barcode can only give you numbers, whereas a QR code can give you info like name, email, URL, message, etc... in fact it is a very common thing in Japan.link
It has been quite some time since I last read the papers and apparently now The Straits Times has it too. Titled "Zap" where you can use your handphone to take a picture of the code which is then sent to a site to be decoded. The code in this case contains the day's headlines news or STOMP's Story of the Day or something of the likes. If you're interested, the code can be found on pages 20 - 22 of today's The Straits Times main section. It's awfully troublesome though because you have to take the picture at an appropriate distance away and have to ensure that your phone has a certain amount of memory left. Then you also have to pay for the GPRS charges. What for when I can just log onto the internet and read whatever I want off the webpage?
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posted by tstar @ 3:32 PM
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Zap is probably quite a cool innovation (though very simple) but being used in a very dumb way by ST.
They are using it to encode URL. URL, for god's sake! URL is already human-readable, they can simply just print the URL out and we can retype that into our browser.
URL?! I thought it'd be some article or something...
Think they're out to earn some money from the readers.
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