Maybe it's the orange, but my phone is having hell trying to figure out the prettified code. That being said, it's a nifty idea.
Create pretty qr codes
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#12Both examples worked with Red Laser on my phone, but the "pretty-fied" one took quite a bit longer for the app to recognize.
QRCode (iPhone app) picked it up almost instantly.
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#13This is cool, but I like this style better.
http://2d-code.co.uk/bbc-logo-in-qr-code/
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#15Reminds me of Microsoft Tag (i.e. High Capacity Color Barcode)
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/hccb/about.aspx
Which allows some much more impressive prettification
http://tag.microsoft.com/resources/implementationguide.aspx#...
That said, is it just me or does it seem like consumer exposure to barcodes is going to be short lived? NFC will be in every phone in the next couple of years; manufacturing and retail will close the gap completely replacing barcodes with RFID soon after that. Even my local library has done away with barcodes and just RFID tagged every book.
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#16Nate Oostendorp who does open source computer vision over at ingenuitas.com pointed out that from a computer vision perspective you really want the "not so pretty" QR code since it's much easier to recognize algorithmically over on twitter http://twitter.com/#!/nateoostendorp (How do I get a link to an individual tweet? Bad Twitter! Bad!)
Re: Create pretty qr codes
#17Nate Oostendorp who does open source computer vision over at ingenuitas.com pointed out that from a computer vision perspective you really want the "not so pretty" QR code since it's much easier to recognize algorithmically over on twitter http://twitter.com/#!/nateoostendorp (How do I get a link to an individual tweet? Bad Twitter! Bad!)
Right-click on the timestamp. http://twitter.com/#!/nateoostendorp/status/6033430473933619...
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#18Both examples worked with Red Laser on my phone, but the "pretty-fied" one took quite a bit longer for the app to recognize.
i-nigma on iPhone worked instantly on the "pretty-fied" one.
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#19Re: Create pretty qr codes
#20Reminds me of Microsoft Tag (i.e. High Capacity Color Barcode) http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/hccb/about.aspx Which allows some much more impressive prettification http://tag.microsoft.com/resources/implementationguide.aspx#... That said, is it just me or does it seem like consumer exposure to barcodes is going to be short lived? NFC will be in every phone in the next couple of years; manufacturing and…
Have they taken the next step and made the library door theft detectors* "smart" and able to read the RFID codes and tell whether a book is checked out or not? That would make so much of a difference for Circulation/Stacks grunts at a library who spend much of their time sensitizing and desensitizing books (most of the rest of the time is spent re-shelving).
* Of course those detectors are just intended to be deterrents, but few actually stop people from walking out of a library with a non-checked book (that's what security [sometimes "information"] is for) ... and that's why we need to keep Reserve Book Rooms.