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Japan has always the latest place for technology as you know… One thing that has really taken of is QR codes which is a new form of bacodes which can store alot more information compared to stardard barcodes (250 characters).
They use it on Adverts and information posters as a way of bookmarking/recording the information on to your phone so you can view it later.
So for example in the picture is a popular arcade game in japan. When you get a high score instead of writing down a long password for you to register it on the games website you have take a picture of the QR code. The QR code will with have all the information on it.
In this example a massive TV screen at a japanese train stations displays a TV advert. After the TV advert it will show you the QR code which if you take a picture of on a japanese phone it will translate this to a webaddress.
Another spin off of QR code is Beetaggs (the ebay tagg is a beetagg) these are more attractive as you can display a logo or picture in the middle. So i guess this is soon to a batter of the formats.
Anyway i made youtube showing you how cool this is…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40lsjCZJ-wI]
Anyway if you wanna try out QR codes you can download a reader on to your phone for free at http://reader.kaywa.com/
or www.beetagg.com (try downloading them, then tagging the ones you see on this blog)