A week or so ago I blogged about how awesome intelligent-object recognition apps for the iphone are and their potential to influence consumer behavior. Here’s a BBC article about Bokodes. New, more sophisticated barcodes that just might change how we interact with objects in our world in a big way. Still no mention of using them for creating more transparency in the chain of commodities, though. Thanks @mwesch for sharing this.
A replacement for the black and white stripes of the traditional barcode has been outlined by US researchers.
Bokodes, as they are known, can hold thousands of times more information than their striped cousins and can be read by a standard mobile phone camera.
The 3mm-diameter (0.1 inches), powered tags could be used to encode nutrition information on food packaging or create new devices for playing video games.
The work will be shown off at Siggraph, a conference in New Orleans next week.
“We think that our technology will create a new way of tagging,” Dr Ankit Mohan, one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers behind the work, told BBC News.
via BBC NEWS | Technology | Barcode replacement shown off.
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