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Posted by CmdrTaco on from the click-on-this dept.

RunAmuk writes "Wired is reporting about being able to "Point and click your mobile phone at a poster in London movie theaters this July and you'll be able to directly access the movie's Web page." While there are many practical uses for this technology, like in museums as the article suggests." I'd like to use it at video rental places and CD stores to get product reviews.

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  1. Not a new concept by Mwongozi · · Score: 2, Informative

    AT&T UK's research division (the same people who took over the VNC project) have been exploring similar ideas within buildings in the Sentient Computing Project.

  2. An actually useful location-based service by higgins · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you're using a computer at CMU (or one of Telerama's wireless hotspots in Pittsburgh), you can find out when the next bus comes near you at bus.maya.com. Perhaps it's not as glamorous as streaming Quicktime movies to your phone, but it's probably more useful ;-) That said, I hope someone solves the location-based services infrastructure problem. The bus hack depends on mapping IP addresses to lat/lons, which is incredibly brittle and evil.

  3. You believe reviews? by BelugaParty · · Score: 2, Informative

    "I'd like to use it at video rental places and CD stores to get product reviews"

    I don't understand. Most reviews on any website attached to such a service would be biased. Places like Amazon, its hard to get credible reviews since you don't know the history of the reviewer or have any idea what their motivation is for writing there. The reviewer could be a corporate shmo who's writing the review from an internal memo, never having seen/heard the movie/CD. They could be an incredibly articulate and pursuasive 9 year old with 9 year old taste. Or it could be HAL9000 (though some people here might like its taste).

    I think music/movie reviews are worthless. Thumbs up or thumbs down are just as useless. The best way to discover a new movie or CD is to meet a person, get to know them, and find out what they like; try watching the movies they like, and try listening to the music they like. Why don't you go to shows?
    You'll be happier. Have a friend. And a reference point for what you are going to fill your ears/eyes with.