Real-World Hyperlinks 322
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.
Could we do it with people too? (Score:0, Interesting)
"I can't remember that info right now. Click on me to see my blog." You could also figure out who in the room has an interesting role or get public encryption keys, etc.
You could have all kinds of fun with this.
Logistics & Supply Chain Management Apps (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:It seems like more tech than needed. (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Are you kidding? (Score:2, Interesting)
Yeah I'm sure the publishers are going to link their products to objective reviews - even if they are bad.
So why not use your www enabled phone to google your own reviews? Well, that type of thing has been out for months now - we need something hot and new!
It'll just be all the same hype on the back of the box - for pinheads who want to read it on something electronic for a couple bucks a pop. Or perhaps are too lazy to turn the box over.
This isn't an article or news of course. Just an advertisement for a service that shows you advertisements. Paying for commercials. Sheesh.
Music recognition service in the UK (Score:4, Interesting)
It's automated, but gawd knows how it does it. That has to be some seriously clever software doing music detection. Either way, I figured it's yet another 'real world' hyperlink example.
Unfortunately the name of the service escapes me, although it's advertised regularly on London's KISS FM. Does anyone else here know about this? I believe you can access the service by 'using the numbers down the middle of your phone..' 2580, perhaps? Just goes to show how good radio advertising really is! Ha!
Re:Are you sure that is a good idea? (Score:3, Interesting)
It would be a lot better if the product simply advertised what it is (instead of sending you somewhere). Then you could customize your cellphone/PDA with how to handle the incoming information. So assume they have a protocol where it reports what type of product it is (album, movie, whatever) along w/ info to specifically identify it, then you could set up your PDA to automatically visit your preferred movie review site(s), handing in the movie ID as a parameter.
But that might put way too much power in the hands of the consumer, and we want to avoid that if at all possible.
Re:P2P networks (Score:2, Interesting)
we need to stepback for a second (Score:5, Interesting)
Sure, maybe these things would hijack your cell-phone, and then the world would end. Somehow I doubt it.
I think the power would be more in the hands of the consumers. The article talks about infrared communication, not radio frequencies. This means that you would have to establish a direct line of sight link. If I have to point the IR port on my phone at something, I have a great amount of control over that.
I think a potential area of trouble is who gets to control what links get displayed. But I could see myself walking into a Barnes&Noble and browsing some books. One looks interesting; so I scan the "WebCode" or whatever with my phone. A couple links pop up on my screen, one to the reviews section of B&N.com for the book and one to the publisher.
Maybe I'm being too trusting, but this idea sounds pretty cool to me.
Not today, but tomorrow? (Score:3, Interesting)
How about pointing your cell phone at a gallon of milk in a grocery store and having it check against the items in your refrigerator to see whether you need more? Better yet, instead of cell phones, what about a device integrated into your clothing? It's very sci-fi, I realize, but isn't that where we're going?
I guess what I'm saying is that even though this seems silly to us now that doesn't mean it won't become very practical with the advent of more technologies. Sci-fi isn't all impractical, it's a view of a future that may be achievable. Don't knock it.
smartly transferring your economic power (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Music recognition service in the UK (Score:2, Interesting)
No, don't think so, we have the same service here in norway (actually had it for quite some time now), all it does is to compare against playlists in radio stations to get which tracks that are on air when you call them and then compare the recorded 30 seconds from your mobile with one of the songs and send you an quick sms back.. voila!
Potential Use: Bookmark Reality (Score:4, Interesting)