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[David Boxall]

On 21/05/2012 2:31 PM, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> David Boxall wrote:
>
>> Interesting technology from Fairfax. Something embedded in printed
>> photos that a mobile's camera can pick up. A development of those 2D
>> barcode things? Too bad it's not available for anything but iPhone.
>
> This sounds like a URL embedded in a barcode called QR code:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code.
> ...
No, that's what's interesting. The reader is instructed to scan part of 
an image in the newspaper (Barack Obama's face and a laptop's display, 
to name two I remember). There's no QR code in sight. Somehow, they've 
encoded the URL (I presume it's a URL) into part of the printed image.

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