Real-World Hyperlinks

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.

Oooooh!

[aborchers]

A long-range Cue Cat!

Still no cure for cancer...

[hendridm]

Send pictures, check your e-mail, surf the Internet, and instantly pull up movie reviews!*

...

*Note: Requires $10 activation fee, you must upgrade to the $59.99/month package, and you will be charged $0.39/minute for every minute you go over your already worthless amount of daytime minutes.

Hmmm..

[Anonymous Coward]

While there are many practical uses for this technology, like in museums as the article suggests.

The submitter's phone must have rang while he was typing and hit the submit button prior to sentence completetion. That, or he has ADD.

P2P networks

[Anonymous Coward]

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

You must be new to the Internet.

Re:Oooooh!

[thud2000]

Exactly what I thought too. Whatever these marketers are on, I want some. "If you look at this ad, you may be rewarded with ... ANOTHER ad for the same thing! Act now!"

Love the hackability..

[grub]

Oh this would be such fun to hack..

Child: Daddy, what's that "Finding Nemo 2" about?
Father: Let's look on our phone, son.
>clicky click click
Father: Hmm.. it appears to be about a man stretching his bottom wide open.

Are you kidding?

[cK-Gunslinger]

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

Are you kidding? Consumers with the power to make instant informed decisions? The (music/movie/software/etc) industry would sh*t a brick!

Pop-Ups?

[retto]

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.

Is some guy wearing a sign going to jump in front of me and start blathering on about casinos or cheap travel discounts?

Re:Oooooh!

[elmegil]

Let's say it all together now...."conVERGence". Bah.

Possible uses

[JoeCotellese]

I'd like to use it to point at a CD and get it queued in Kazaa.

Better use

[Lt Razak]

I'd like to point and click on a girl walking buy, and having www.XXXgirlnextdoor.com or www.milf.com pop up, showing the nekkid details.

Make it better?!

[geekmetal]

"Looking even further ahead, Hypertag will use visual recognition, so phone users can point their phone at a magazine or newspaper article and be linked to a Web page, and even sound," said Morgan. "Using sound would allow TV viewers to access related Web pages by pointing and clicking their phone at the television.

So that we can read painfully from our cell phone screens instead of reading the printed material? Hmm.. Wonder how further they think they will go..

Re:Pop-Ups?

[st0rmshad0w]

Hmmm, or how about maybe a guy in a goofy butterfly outfit putting you in a headlock if you try to show the info on an 'R' rated film to some kid?

Ahhh, parental controls....

I bet retailers will fight tooth and nail...

[FatSean]

No longer would consumers be fooled by packaging and out-of-context reviews! All the crap merchandise would have to be reduced to their actual value. "Top Gun" will sell for $3 on DVD.

Re:Oooooh!

[gordon_schumway]

Goddamnit people! It's ':Cue:Cat'!

Eri:c :Chavez
:CEO, Digital :Convergen:ce

Re:Wait until this technology matures

[flying_triguy]

Well, if you are seriously reading this article,
and thinking about the consequences I can tell you
the statistical probability right now... Zeroooooo

D

hmmm - a better use

[Tumbleweed]

Howzabout I point the thing at a pretty girl, and it reads her RFID tags and tells me what her blog URL is...now *that's* an 'enabling technology'! :)

One thing left to do.

[aeinome]

Get pr0n via strip club adverts.

Re:RFID

[pVoid]

I find it funny that all the replies to this post somehow are tinted with the idea that the original post was being paranoid about RFID.

Pavlov would have a field day on this site... you guys hear the bell "RFID" and you can't help but start salivating.

I think the parent post was just pointing out the simplicity in such a gadget - not its invasion of your so precious privacy.

Good idea

[stud9920]

...because everyone should leave his GSM online when in the cinema.

Wouldn't this be a single geeks dream come true?

[linuxrunner]

Walk down the street and point and click at every attractive woman you meet...

click > Married
click > Single but attached
click > Looking for an orgy with the next man that asks

Now we know what was on the mind of the guy who created this....

Re:Spam escapes from the computer

[Anonymous Coward]

I am gonna learn some farming and move to the boonies !!

Just remember, pop-ups suck worse over dial-up!

Re:For the humor impaired...

[cvas]

Another...

A pirate walked into a bar with a steering wheel in his crotch.
The bartender said "Do you know you have a steering wheel in your crotch?"
The pirate responded,"Arr, it's drivin me nuts!"

Don't forget to tip your waitress.

Well we know who will exploit this first

[AnalogDiehard]

Adult stores.

Simply passing by a pr0n shop on the street will set off your cell phone and flood it with text message ads.

Walk by a topless dance club and you get instant animated ads.

Browse in the local magazine shop and a text message ad directs you to the "back room".

Man am I glad I do not carry a cell phone...