It was only a matter of time before someone made a QR Code commando patch! This is going to be added to my TAD Gear Stealth Jacket SS posthaste…
Here’s a velcro-backed QRcode patch I’ve been working on. It’s a polyester-twill patch, with the design applied using dye sublimation (so it’s waterproof.) Each p8tch contains a unique encoded URL. That URL can be read by mobile phones, now including the iPhone!
The patch links to a configurable proxy URL. Each p8tch comes with a unique keyphrase that allows you to set the destination. So your patch can link to:
* Your blog,
* Your Flickr photostream,
* Your Facebook/MySpace page
* A Google map link to your secret headquarters,
* Your Amazon Wish list/PayPal tip jar
…whatever you want.
Your friend snaps a picture of the QRcode with their mobile phone, and then they’re looking at the URL you set. You know, just like in Japan.
Of course, that’s assuming your friend has a steady hand and some patience; the iPhone QRcode readers are in their infancy, but with some patience and good light, I can reliably shoot a patch with the iPhone. More mature QRcode readers like the ones on board the Nokia N95 are faster (but rarer in the US.)
The design at the top is by Kenn Munk, and there are several available (cf. the next picture)
The guys over at AdMob have launched a new integrated Ad format for iPhone… Its pretty awesome and is not intrusive at all AND it integrates perfectly with the whole iPhone experience… be interesting to see how this all pans out… Thanks to George Chen for the tip!
To install this update, you must download the ipsw file and iTunes 7.7. Open iTunes and clicking the option + clicking the check for update button will prompt iTunes to ask for the ipsw location; once you’ve done that, iTunes will begin the firmware update.
The Houston Fence, located on the corner of Broadway and Houston, is an temporary outdoor installation inspired by QR-code patterns. These bar codes, when scanned with a mobile phone, allow pedestrians to seamlessly connect to online content such as web sites, blogs and others.
Nice bit of mobile phone technology and integration going on here… mobile barcodes, mobile barcode payments, mobile messaging, biometric finger print ID, RFID payments, etc… all at a grocery store?
A German supermarket is encouraging customers to scan and ring up their shopping using mobile phones, and check out without the help of a cashier.
It is one of the number of innovations at the new “Future Store” - as Steve Rosenberg discovered when he went along to do his weekly shopping.
Amazing concepts on mobility and search using a HUD concept and touch screen/surface device… Super impressive and with the fact that OLED technology is getting cheaper and becoming more and more used in devices nowadays, could happen sooner than later….
This is what I wish the internet search will be able to do with a mobile device in the NEAR future. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search… all in one device. Like this way, when you can see a building through it, it gives you the image search result right on the spot.
Read Future of Internet Search: Mobile version articles #1,#2, #3 and #4 in the series.
I was at the 2008 Web2.0 Expo last week in San Francisco and stopped by the Instructables.com booth where they had a Laser Engraving Machine setup and were doing engravings for FREE for conference attendees. You could get either your laptop, iPod or iPhone (or any other device for that matter) engraved, as long as your provided them with vector art or high enough resolution bitmap art.
I provided them with a PNG file of a QR Code I generated (via Kaywa QR-Code Generator) with my entire email signature file, postal address, with links to my blog and twitter pages as well. It was a very large QR Code to say the least, in real world use it would not work on many handsets as it is too complicated. But, as a digital graffiti piece on my iPhone it was just fine.
Note: This article and QR engraving was mentioned recently on the Kaywa Blog as well… and I have since met a guy on Flickr who also engraved some QR codes on his iPhone as well!
I found this Flashlite screensaver and site MoMode by mistake while searching for some top notch design and animation examples for a mobile research project I was working on. Turns out the person who runs this shop is one guy and his brother and they have a couple of other equally cool designs for Flashlite screensavers. The MoMode screensaver runs on any mobile phone device that supports Flashlite. I installed it on my Nokia N80 handset (running Symbian series60 rev3 OS) but it works on the Nokia N95, N73, etc…
the term ‘oyayubizoku’ literally translated from japanese equates to ‘thumb-gang’ or ‘thumb-tribe’ referring to the masses of young people in japan that use mobile phones for texting, email, and mobile phone conversations.
