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Semacode - Hyperlinks For The Real World

Posted by timothy on from the cuecat dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Semacode is a fascinating concept - it involves encoding a standard network/web URL in visual form (essentially a 2D bar code) that can be displayed in the real world for people to 'read' with semacode-enabled connected devices. The reference platform for now is the Symbian/Series 60 phone platform - specifically, the Nokia 3650 . Semacode also works with the Nokia 6600 and 7650 camera phones."

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  1. Oh wow. Really. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    > it involves encoding a standard network/web URL in visual form
    > (essentially a 2D bar code) that can be displayed in the real world for
    > people to 'read' with semacode-enabled connected devices

    So ... if that "semacode-enabled connected device" was a PC with a floppy disk drive ...

    I assume that the "visual form" isn't human readable. Therefore who the fuck cares. It could be a fucking punched card. This is nothing new. It is not fucking worthy of a fucking slashdot story, despite the fucking incompetance of the people that run this site and their fucking expensive cars and houses that they got for running this site on broken fucking HTML that doesn't render correctly in Firefox half the fucking time.

  2. Re:Augmented Reality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    I showed the back of my note cards to the Motion Eye, and the VAIO ran video clips on command.


    Since you were that close to the laptop anyways, why didn't you just press keys on the keyboard? Sounds like an elaborate way to justify an overpriced laptop.