Microsoft Tag, Smartphone-Scannable Barcodes

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 12, 2009 @10:30PM from the cue-cat-lives dept.

dhavleak writes "Microsoft Research has come up with Microsoft Tag: '...just aim your camera phone at a Tag and instantly access mobile content, videos, music, contact information, maps, social networks, promotions, and more. Nothing to type, no browsers to launch!' Device support is fairly extensive (iPhone, WinMo, BlackBerry and more), and tag scanning appears to work quickly and reliably from different distances and angles. Long Zheng has an overview on his site. The Tag is similar to a barcode, but has obvious visual differences — colored vs. black and white, and triangles vs. squares or lines. The technology looks interesting, but will it get the adoption necessary to be successful? What applications do you see for such technology?"

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Not the next PARC...yet by Zubinix · 2009-01-12 22:43 · Score: 1, Funny

What original ideas do Microsoft Research come up with? My Nokia E71 has a 2D barcode reader so this is merely an incremental improvement on a well known idea. What next, graphic user interfaces?
Microsoft reinvents again by solune · 2009-01-12 23:17 · Score: 5, Funny

I've always wanted to turn my phone into a cue-cat!(R)
Re:QR code? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-13 00:53 · Score: 2, Funny

Self-aware troll? This is impossible!