Encode data in 2D on your T-shirts, business cards and stickers !

Step 3 Decode

Back to Jaxo System's homepage, in the left pane you can download the decoder for your mobile phone. It's a jar file you have to transfer to your mobile and then install according to your phone's manual. On my Sony-Ericsson everything went smooth.

Now start the mobile reader on your phone, point the camera to the code and shoot the photo. You'll be likely required to permit the camera to take pictures, just click ok...

Final notes:
License plates like the ones seen on "The 5th element" and based on regular 1D bar codes are surpassed already. Think at the contacts that could be sent through dynamic arrays of LEDs or LCD TV screens, all without the need of radiofrequency.

What I described here is a suite of applications which were already in the minds of the designers of the 2D codes, I did not invent anything.
Possibly someone already prints T-shirts and business cards like the ones described here : I just wanted to make a roundup of these design opportunities for the community to enjoy.
Finito.

Comments

[bennettcrew]

My brother makes custom furniture / art deco pieces, and tags them with QR. As the piece sits in someone's lobby or other such place, if someone is interested in it, they scan the QR, it takes them directly to the webpage for that particular one, and they can purchase it via paypal, right from their phone! The site also allows them to contact him, or browse other pieces of furniture / art. Your point of using it at historical landmarks is something I was just thinking about a few days ago, prior to reading this. A local community is looking into some more "interactive" things, and my suggestion would be to use these things for a "walking tour" type of situation.

[UndergroundMark]

Hello, Im curious is there a computer based application instead of phone based that I can use a web cam to read it?

[lunchboxrc]

Why not just run the business cards through the printer?

[5Volt]

The new thing is that you can supply anyone equipped with this stuff with contact details and that these can be transferred directly to the contact directory within a phone. Short (and medium-long!) description can accompany these data. And you don't need to hand-write a single word. QR-coded historical information could (and already do ) be printed at the entrance of historical landmarks : just point the phone and you get suggested itineraries over the web. A voice might also narrate along. Get the menu with a snapshot along with opening time and phone number for reservation. Public transportation timetables. Charities may display their phone numbers on the screens during, say, Telethons or so, and ask to "snap a picture and donate" instead of "go reach for a telephone and dial....". Manufacturing steps and repair history of devices could be coded on stickers. QR codes and 2D codes in general, could bridge the gap between printed and digital information. No OCR. Again, I'm not inventing anything. Almost all of these are already there.